Weather
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| Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
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| Meteorologists | Sicentist whos study the cause of weather and try to predict it.
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| Forecast | A prediction of what the weather will be in the future.
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| Tempeture | The average amount of enegry of motin in the molecules of a substance.
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| Convection | The trasnfer of heat by movement of a liquid.
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| Humidity | A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
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| Relative Humidity | The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maxium amount the air canb hold at it's temputure.
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| Wind | The horizontal movement of air from a area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
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| Cumulus | Clouds that form leaa than 2 kilometers above the ground and look like fluffy rounded piles of cotton.
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| Stratus | Clouds that form in flat layers.
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| Cirrus | Wispy feathery clouds made of mostly ice cystals that form at high levels above about 6 kilometers.
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| Thermometer | An instrument used to measure tempure consiting of a thin glass tube witha bulb on one end that contains a liquid.
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| Anemometer | An instrument used to measure wind speed.
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| Psychrometer | An instrument used to measure relative humidity consisting of a wet bulb thermometer and a dry bulb thermeter.
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| Air Mass | A huge body of air that has simular tem pressure an humidity thoughout.
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| Front | The area where air masses meet and do not mix.
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| Cold Front | When cold air mass pushes aganist a warm air mass.
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| Warm Front | When warm air mass pushes agansist a cold air mass.
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| Tornado | A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earth's surface ussaly leaving a destructive path.
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| Hurricane | Atropical storm that has wind of 119km per hour or higher typically about 600 km across.
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