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| What is weather? | the atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
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| What is air pressure? | pressure that a column of air exerts on the air, or surface below.
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| What is relative humidity? | the amount of water vapor present in the air compared ot the maximum amount of water vapor the air could contain at that temperature.
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| What is humidity? | the amount of water vapor in the air.
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| What is dew point? | the temperature at which air is fully saturated because of decreasing temperatures while holding the amount of moisture constant.
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| What is precipitation? | water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere.
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| What is water cycle? | the series of natural processes in which water continually moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere.
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| What is the average kinetic energy of molecules in the air? | air temperature
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| What is barometric pressure? | another name for air pressure
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| When air moves from high and low ares of high and low pressure, what is this called? | wind
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| What is used to measure relative humidity? | a psychrometer
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| What happens when the air gets saturated with water vapor? | the water vapor will condense and form water droplets, called rain.
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| What happens when the temperature decreases? | the air holds less moisture
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| What is a stratus cloud? | flat, white, and layered, and altitude up to 2,000 m.
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| What is a cumulus cloud? | fluffy, heaped, or piled up, and 2,000 to 6,000 m altitude.
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| What is a cirrus cloud? | wispy and above 6,000 m.
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| What is a cloud that forms near Earth's surface? | fog
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| Rain is what? | precipitation that reaches Earth's surface as droplets of water.
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| What is hail? | large pellets of ice.
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| Is precipitation important? | yes
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| When does water vapor enter the atmosphere? | when water is heated and evaporates at eh ocean's surface.
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| How does this cycle keep going? | clouds produce precipitation, which falls to Earth's surface and later evaporates.
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| What is the sky made out of? | matter/gases
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| Can precipitation be a solid? | yes
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| Can the periodic table tell us anything about what precipitation is made out of? | yes
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| Is there chemical reactions in the atmosphere? | yes
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