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Lesson 9: Weather
Weather and Climate
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Climate | The usual weather in a place |
| Air Pressure: | The weight of the air pressing on everything in the environment |
| Barometer: | A device that measures air pressure |
| Precipitation | Water falling to the Earth |
| Barometer: | A device that measures air pressure |
| Precipitation | Water falling to the Earth |
| Humidity | Water vapor in the air |
| Nimbus Clouds | Rain clouds |
| Cumulous Clouds | Puffy clouds with flat bottoms and are low in the sky. Cumulus clouds usually mean fair weather |
| Stratus Clouds | Clouds low to the ground, such as fog |
| Front | The place where one air mass meets another air mass |
| Air Mass | A large pocket of air |
| Constructive Forces | forces that affect the earth's surface by building it up to form new landforms like mountains and islands. |
| Destructive Forces | forces that affect the earth's surface by breaking down landforms |