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WeatherUnit-1st 9wks
Weather
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abiotic | characterized by an absence of living organisms; without life |
| anemometer | an instrument that measures the speed and force of the wind |
| atmosphere | the gases surrounding the earth or another planet - the air of a particular place |
| biotic | pertaining to life or living things |
| Celsius | relating to a temperature scale on which water freezes at zero degrees and boils at one hundred degrees |
| hail | round pieces of frozen rain or a storm of this frozen rain |
| meteorology | the science that studies the earth's weather and atmosphere |
| precipitation | the act of water falling in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail - snow, sleet, rain, or hail that falls to the surface of the earth, or the amount of it that falls in a given period of time |
| rain gauge | an instrument that collects and measures the amount of rainfall in a specific time and place |
| sleet | freezing rain |
| snow | soft, white flakes of ice that fall from the sky to the earth - snow is formed when water in the upper air freezes into crystals - a layer of such flakes |
| temperature | the degree of heat or cold of an object or an environment - the measurement of heat or cold as shown in degrees on a thermometer |
| weather | the conditions outside at a particular place and time |