Weather flash cards
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| Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
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| Meteorologists | Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it.
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| Forecast | A prediction of what the weather will be in the future.
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| Temperature | The average amount of energy of motion in the molecules of a substance.
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| Convection | The transfer of heat by movements of a fluid.
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| Humidity | A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
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| Relative Humidity | The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount of air can hold at that temperature.
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| Wind | The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
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| Cumulus | Clouds that form less than 2 kilometers above the ground and look like fluffy,rounded piles of cotton.
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| Stratus | Clouds that form in flat layers.
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| Cirrus | Wispy,feathery clouds made mostly of ice crystals that form at high levels, above about 6 kilometers.
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| Thermometer | An instrument used to measure temperature, consisting of a thin,glass tube with a bulb on one end that contains a liquid.
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| Anemometer | An instrument used to measure wind speed.
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| Psychrometer | An instrument used tomeasure relative humidity, consisting of a wet-bulb thermometer and a dry-bulb thermometer.
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| Air mass | A huge body of air that has similiar temperature,pressure, and humidity throughout.
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| Front | The area where air masses meet and do not mix.
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| Cold front | When a cold air mass pushes against a warm air mass.
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| Warm front | When a warm air mass pushes against a cold air mass.
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| Tornado | A rapidly whirling,funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path.
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| Hurricane | A tropical storm that has winds of 119km per hour or higher; typically about 600km across.
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