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20 Science Vocab

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Air Pressure   Gases that press down on earth  
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Stratocumulus Clouds   Low lumpy layers of clouds  
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El Nino   A warming of surface water of eastern and central pacifical  
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Alberta Clipper   A snow storm from canada's plains  
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La Nina   usually cooler water temperatures in the equatorial pacific ocean  
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Cirrostratus clouds   thin uniform layer of cloud at high altitude  
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Doppler radar   track weather in different places  
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cumulus cloud   towering vertical cloud  
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hydrosphere   the water surrounding the surface of the earth  
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cirrocumulus clouds   a patch of cloud made up of high altitude cloud-lets  
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thermometer   a device that measures the temperature  
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fujita scale   measures the intensity of a tornado  
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absolute humidity   the water content of air  
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isobar   an imaginary line or a line on a map or chart connecting barometric pressure  
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blizzard   storm w/ dry, driving snow, strong winds, intense that cover a long area  
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windward/leeward   the side of an island that faces north/east and is lush green  
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acid rain   precipitation with an unusually high percentage of sulfuric and nitric acids  
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debris cloud   a rotating cloud of dust near or on the ground surrounding the bottom of a tornado  
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ionosphere   a region in earth's atmosphere where ionization effects transmits water  
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