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Science words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rain gauge | an instrument for measuring rainfall |
| relative humidity | the amount of water vapor in the air |
| stratosphere | the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles above the earth |
| temperature | a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value |
| thermometer | an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes |
| thermosphere | the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases with altitude, the layer above the mesosphere. |
| troposphere | the lowest layer of the atmosphere |
| water vapor | a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc |
| wind | |
| tornado | |
| storm |