Question | Answer |
What is air mass? | A body of air that has simalar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout. |
What is air pressure? | A force that is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on a area. |
What is a Anmometer | An instrument used to measure wind speed. |
What is altitude? | The height of a thing above a reference level, especially above sea level or above the earth's surface. |
What is Atmosphere? | The Layer of gases that surrounds Earth. |
What is a Barometer? | An instrument used to measure changes in air pressure. |
What is Climate? | The average year after year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area. |
What is Condensation? | The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water. |
What is Conduction? | The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that is touching. |
What is Convection? | The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid. |
What is Density? | The amount of mass of a substance to a given volume. |
What is Dew Point? | The temperature at which condensation begins. |
What are Droughts? | Long periods of low percipitation. |
What is the Mesophere? Isabel Morse | The middle layer of Earths atmosphere; the layer in which most meteorids burn up. |
What is A meteroligists? Isabel Morse | Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it. |
What is occlueded? Isabel Morse | Cut off as the warm air mass at an occluded front is cut off from the groundby cooler air beneath it. |
What is ozone? Isabel Morse | A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molocule instead of the usual two. |
What is pollutants? Isabel Morse | Harmful substances in the air, water, or, soil. |
What is precipitation? Isabel Morse | Any form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches earths surface. |
What is pressure? Isabel Morse | |
What is psychrometer? Isabel Morse | |
What is radiation? Isabel Morse | |
What is Rain gauge Isabel Morse | |
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What is Stratosphere? | The warming of the ocean off the west coast of South America. Every 2-7 years. |
What is evaporation?Morgan Bassett | The changing from a soild to a vapor or gas. |
What is the exosphere?Morgan Bassett | The outer layer of the atmosphere. |
What is a front?Morgan Bassett | The area where air masses meet but do not mix. |
What is a greenhouse effect?Morgan Bassett | Process where heat is trapped in the atmosphere and forms a blanket around Earth |
What is heat?Morgan Bassett | Energy transfered from a hotter object to a colder one. |
What is humidity?Morgan Bassett | A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air. |
What is the ionosphere?Morgan Bassett | The lower part of the thermosphere. |
What are isobars?Morgan Bassett | The lines on a map thar join places to show the same air pressure. |
What are isotherms?Morgan Bassett | The lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature. |
What are jet streams?Morgan Bassett | The bands of high wind speeds 10 kilometers above Earther's surface. |
what is temperature Elizabeth Bean | how warm or cold the air is |
what is a thermometer | a weather intrument used to tell the temperature of the air |
what is the thrmosphere | the warmest layer of the atmosphere and the 4th layer of the atmosphere |
what is the trophosphere | the trophosphere is the first layer of the atmossphere ant where all weather happens |
what is water vapor | water vapor is steam |
what is weather | wheather is the condition of earths atmosphere at a ceartain time and place |
what is wind | wind is the horizontal movement of air |
what is a tornado | a rapidly whirling funnel that reaches down from a storm cloud |
what is a hurricane | a hurricane is a tropical storm that has high winds |
what is a storm | a violent didturbance in the atmophere |
what is a monsoon | sea and land breezes over a large region |
what is a flash flood | a sudden violent flood |
what is a cyclone | a swirling center of low air pressure |