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Chapter 1
Seasons
Clouds
General Weather #1
General Weather #2
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This instrument is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
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Why the weather is different for each season.
What is because we live on a moving planet>
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This colour of cloud holds very little moisture
What is a light coloured cloud?
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Normal weather is also called this?
What is climate?
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These are grouped by the way that they look?
What are clouds.
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Air pushing down on you.
What is air pressure?
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How does the earth move in two different ways?
What is spinning and revolving around the sun.
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This colour of cloud holds lots of moisture.
What is a dark cloud?
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Land near this is typically cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than land that is further away.
What is the ocean?
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We get four seasons and 365 days, or one year, because the earth does this.
What is revolve around the sun?
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A mass of tiny water droplets that have condensed from water vapour in the air.
What is a cloud?
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This season usually gives us cool moist weather. It gets fewer hours of daylight.
What is winter?
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These clouds indicate that rain or snow might be coming. They are thin feather like clouds that sit high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
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As the air moves up over the mountains it cools and forms these.
What are clouds?
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This type of air pressure system has clouds and precipitation.
What is a low pressure system?
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Rain, snow, and hail.
What is precipitation?
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This season usually gives us warm dry weather. It gets more hours of daylight.
What is summer?
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These clouds indicate fair weather. They are fluffy with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
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Places on this side of the mountains get less precipitation.
What is the east side?
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This type of air pressure system has clear skies.
What is a high pressure system?
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The day-to-day changes in our atmosphere.
What is weather?
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These are the four seasons of the year.
What are winter, spring, summer, and fall?
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This cloud means precipitation might fall. They are flat layered clouds, usually a grey day.
What are stratus clouds?
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Meteorologists use averages of these two things to describe weather patterns.
What are temperature and precipitation?
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Our day to day weather depends on large bodies of air called this.
What are air masses