Science Weather
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| Weather | The conditions of the atmosphere at any given time or place.
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| Meteorologist | A person who studies weather.
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| Weather map | Where weather conditions can be charted and used as information to produce a weather forecast.
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| Weather forecast | Prediction of weather conditions at some future time for some given reason.
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| Humidity | The amount of moisture found in the air and any one time or place.
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| What are some sources of information that help forecast the weather? | Observers, instruments carried by balloons, satellites, maps, charts, and computers.
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| What are some factors that determine the weather factors. | Air temperature, air pressure, humidity of the air, amount and kind of cloud cover, amount of precipitation, and speed and direction of the wind.
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| What are the requirements of a line graph? | Always has a title, two different axis, intervals always equal, label on each axis to describe information.
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| How do meteorologists use standards to measure? | Measuring wind speed from 10 meters off the ground, and taking the temperature at the same time of day.
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| How does solar energy effect weather? | The driving force behind all weather changes, darker and rougher surfaces absorb more heat, more gases in the atmosphere, the more solar energy that is absorbed heating up the air.
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| How does air pressure effect the weather? | Air pressure is low as warm air rises.
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| How do clouds effect the weather? | It decreases the amount of heat in the atmosphere by shading out the suns solar energy as well as providing all types of precipitation.
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| What would you expect on high pressure days? | Clear and sunny skies.
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| What would you expect of low air pressure days? | Cloudy skies with a higher chance of precipitation.
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| When do you use a line graph? | To show change over time.
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