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Atmosphere
Conditions of Weather
Weather Tools
Heat Transfer and Breezes
Air Masses and Symbols
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What is the layer of gases that surround the Earth?
Atmosphere
100
What is the amount of heat in the air called?
Temperature
100
This measure temperature
Thermometer
100
What is moving air also known as?
Wind
100
What type of air is dry and usually forms over land?
Continental
200
What is the current conditions of the atmosphere at any given time and place?
Weather
200
What scale do you use to measure temperature?
Degrees Celsius or Degrees Fahrenheit
200
This measures wind direction
Weather vane
200
Heat that is transferred by the movement of fluid is called (radiation, conduction, convection)
Convection
200
What type of air mass is warm?
Tropical
300
What layer of the atmosphere is where all weather happens?
Troposphere
300
What is the amount force the air pushes down on the ground?
Air Pressure
300
This measures wind speed
Anemometer
300
What absorbs heat more, sand or water?
Sand
300
What is the boundary between 2 air masses called? Rain usually happens here.
Front
400
Air is made up of about 78% Nitrogen and about 21% what?
Oxygen
400
What is the amount of water in the air compared to how much it can hold?
Relative Humidity
400
This measures amount of rainfall
Rain Gauge
400
When hot air above sand rises and cool air above the water moves in to fill the space, this is called
Sea Breeze
400
What is * the symbol for?
Snow
500
What layer of the atmosphere has the ozone layer that protects us from harmful UV rays from the Sun?
Stratosphere
500
Wind is always named by where it _________?
Comes from
500
This measures air pressure
Barometer
500
When warm air over the water rises and cool air over the land moves in to fill the space, it is called
Land Breeze
500
What is the symbol for rain?
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