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3rd Grade Unit 6
Definition | Term |
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air that surrounds the Earth; made of a mixture of gases | Atmosphere |
a scientist who studies the weather | Meterologist |
water that falls to the Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail | Precipitation |
a tool for collecting and measuring the amount of precipitation that falls | Rain Gauge |
a way of measuring how hot or cold something is; temperature is measured using either the Fahrenheit (F) or Celsius (C) scale | Temperature |
day-to-day condition of the atmosphere in an area; weather has short-term variations (minutes to weeks) | Weather |
a weather instrument used to show the direction of the wind; often ornamental | Wind Vane |
the unit of measurement we use in science for temperature | Celcius |
the unit of measurement the United States uses to describe temperature | Fahrenheit |