SCI - Chp. 3 Vocab.
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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| Temperature | A measure of how hot or cold an object is compared to a reference point.
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| Thermometer | An instrument used to measure temperature.
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| Conduction | The direct transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another substance that it is touching.
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| Convection | The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid (liquid or gas).
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| Convection Currents | The circulation of a fluid as it alternately heats up and cools down.
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| Jet Stream | Bands of high-speed winds about 10 kilometers above Earth’s surface.
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| Relative humidity | The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount of water vapor that air can contain at a particular temperature.
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| Psychrometer | An instrument used to measure relative humidity, consisting of a wet-bulb thermometer and a dry-bulb thermometer.
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| Condensation | The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water.
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| Wind | The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
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| Dew point | The temperature at which condensation begins.
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| Anemometer | An instrument used to measure wind speed.
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| Cirrus | Wispy, feathery clouds made mostly of ice crystals that form at high levels.
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| Sea breeze | The flow of cooler air from over an ocean or lake toward land.
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| Cumulus | Fluffy, white clouds, usually with flat bottoms, that look like rounded piles of cotton.
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| Land breeze | The flow of air from land to a body of water.
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| Stratus | Clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky.
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| Precipitation | Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface.
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| Rain gauge | An instrument used to measure the amount of precipitation.
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| Radiation | The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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