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Weather
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| map | a flat 2 dimensional drawing of land and water |
| globe | a spherical scale model of the earth |
| latitude | geographic coordinate that specifies the north or south of the Equator |
| longitude | distance measured in degrees east or west from an imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole and that passes through Greenwich, England |
| hemisphere | One half of a sphere, formed by a plane that passes through the center of the sphere |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, and cloud cover. |
| climate | Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the “average weather,” or more rigorously, as the statistical description |
| cirrus clouds | white wispy clouds that for high altitudes and are always made of ice crystals |
| clouds | a collection of million of tiny water droplets suspended in the air |
| condensation | the process of changing from a gas to a liquid |
| hygrometer | a tool used to measure the amount of water vapor in the air |
| cumulus cloud | fair weather clouds with white puffy tops and dark flat bottoms |
| stratus cloud | lowest clouds |
| cumulonimbus cloud | a huge vertical cloud that can produce a thunderstorm |
| nimbo/nimbus | precipitating cloud, such as nimbostratus or cumulonimbus loud |
| rain | frozen precipitation melts and reaches the ground as rain |
| freezing rain | frozen precipitation melts in warm air rain falls and freezes on cold surfaces |
| sleet | frozen precipitation melts in shallow warm air then refreezes into sleet before reaching the surface |
| snow | snow falls through cold air and reaches the surface |
| hail | |
| rain gauge | a weather instrument that measures rainfall |
| anemometer | a weather instrument that measures wind speed |
| wind vane | a weather instrument that shows the direction the wind is coming from |
| global wind | winds that are high up in the atmosphere |
| prevailing westerlies | |
| trade winds | |
| polar easterlies | |
| sea breeze | a breeze blowing towards the land from the sea, especially at night, because the sea warmer than the land |
| land breeze | a breeze blowing toward the land from the sea, especially during the day, because land is warmer than the sea |
| cold front | |
| Warm front |
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