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What is air mass?   A body of air that has simalar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout.  
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What is air pressure?   A force that is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on a area.  
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What is a Anmometer   An instrument used to measure wind speed.  
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What is altitude?   The height of a thing above a reference level, especially above sea level or above the earth's surface.  
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What is Atmosphere?   The Layer of gases that surrounds Earth.  
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What is a Barometer?   An instrument used to measure changes in air pressure.  
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What is Climate?   The average year after year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area.  
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What is Condensation?   The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water.  
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What is Conduction?   The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that is touching.  
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What is Convection?   The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid.  
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What is Density?   The amount of mass of a substance to a given volume.  
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What is Dew Point?   The temperature at which condensation begins.  
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What are Droughts?   Long periods of low percipitation.  
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What is the Mesophere? Isabel Morse   The middle layer of Earths atmosphere; the layer in which most meteorids burn up.  
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What is A meteroligists? Isabel Morse   Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it.  
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What is occlueded? Isabel Morse   Cut off as the warm air mass at an occluded front is cut off from the groundby cooler air beneath it.  
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What is ozone? Isabel Morse   A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molocule instead of the usual two.  
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What is pollutants? Isabel Morse   Harmful substances in the air, water, or, soil.  
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What is precipitation? Isabel Morse   Any form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches earths surface.  
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What is pressure? Isabel Morse    
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What is psychrometer? Isabel Morse    
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What is radiation? Isabel Morse    
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What is Rain gauge Isabel Morse    
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What is Stratosphere?   The warming of the ocean off the west coast of South America. Every 2-7 years.  
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What is evaporation?Morgan Bassett   The changing from a soild to a vapor or gas.  
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What is the exosphere?Morgan Bassett   The outer layer of the atmosphere.  
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What is a front?Morgan Bassett   The area where air masses meet but do not mix.  
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What is a greenhouse effect?Morgan Bassett   Process where heat is trapped in the atmosphere and forms a blanket around Earth  
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What is heat?Morgan Bassett   Energy transfered from a hotter object to a colder one.  
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What is humidity?Morgan Bassett   A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.  
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What is the ionosphere?Morgan Bassett   The lower part of the thermosphere.  
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What are isobars?Morgan Bassett   The lines on a map thar join places to show the same air pressure.  
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What are isotherms?Morgan Bassett   The lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature.  
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What are jet streams?Morgan Bassett   The bands of high wind speeds 10 kilometers above Earther's surface.  
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what is temperature Elizabeth Bean   how warm or cold the air is  
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what is a thermometer   a weather intrument used to tell the temperature of the air  
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what is the thrmosphere   the warmest layer of the atmosphere and the 4th layer of the atmosphere  
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what is the trophosphere   the trophosphere is the first layer of the atmossphere ant where all weather happens  
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what is water vapor   water vapor is steam  
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what is weather   wheather is the condition of earths atmosphere at a ceartain time and place  
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what is wind   wind is the horizontal movement of air  
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what is a tornado   a rapidly whirling funnel that reaches down from a storm cloud  
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what is a hurricane   a hurricane is a tropical storm that has high winds  
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what is a storm   a violent didturbance in the atmophere  
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what is a monsoon   sea and land breezes over a large region  
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what is a flash flood   a sudden violent flood  
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what is a cyclone   a swirling center of low air pressure  
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