Weather unit
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Air Pressure | The pressure caused by the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
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| Altitude | Elevation above sea level
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| Atmosphere | The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
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| Density | The amount of mass of a substance in a given volume. D=M/V
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| Air Mass | A huge body of air that forms over a region characterizing it with similar temperature,
humidity and pressure at any given height.
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| Front | The boundary separating two or more different types of air masses.
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| Ozone | A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of two.
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| Convection | The transfer of heat by the movement of warmed matter (air or liquid)
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| Coriolis Effect | The deflection of an object moving above the earth, rightward in the northern hemisphere and leftward in the southern hemisphere.
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| Wind |
The movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
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| Temperature | A measure of the average amount of thermal energy in a substance. (how hot or cold an object is)
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| Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
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| Dew Point | The temperature at which water vapor will start to condense out of the air as liquid water.
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| Radar |
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
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| Fluid | Anything that flows and fills a container such as a liquid or a gas.
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