watching the weather
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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show | meteorologist
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basic cause of all weather | show 🗑
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show | from the ground
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show | axis
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reason for the earth's seasons | show 🗑
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an imaginary line circling the earth midway between the North and South poles | show 🗑
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show | temperature differences found on the earth
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warm air is ____________ that cooler air | show 🗑
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how fast the earth travels per hour to keep up with a 24 hr. day schedule | show 🗑
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the amount of water vapor that the air can hold at a given temperature | show 🗑
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the lowest possible temperature at which air is able to hold all of its water vapor | show 🗑
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the process in which water vapor leaves the air and changes into liquid water | show 🗑
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water vapor that condenses to form liquid water on the ground | show 🗑
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water vapor that condenses and forms frozen water on the ground | show 🗑
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single large unit of air with uniform temperatures and humidity characteristics is called a ____________ | show 🗑
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show | front
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warm air pushing cold air | show 🗑
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cold air pushing warm air | show 🗑
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show | cumulus
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show | stratus
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wisp or curl, occur at very top of atmosphere, made of very small ice crystals | show 🗑
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ground level cloud | show 🗑
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term used to describe a cloud from which rain is falling | show 🗑
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show | rain
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falling ice crystals that melt slightly, stick, and freeze together into snowflakes | show 🗑
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show | dry snow
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falling ice crystals that melt into raindrops, then refreeze and land on earth as tiny pieces of ice | show 🗑
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show | freezing rain
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show | thunderhead
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small pieces of ice is tossed up and down inside a cloud, forming several layers of ice, until it is too heavy and falls to the ground | show 🗑
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produced by very tall clouds such as cumulonimbus | show 🗑
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show | lightning
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show | step leader
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show | thunder
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lightning bolts that don't touch ground, stay inside cloud, bright flash | show 🗑
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type of storm that packs most destructive power into the smallest space | show 🗑
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calm region of extremely low air pressure | show 🗑
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occurs when a tornado has been spotted | show 🗑
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row of cumulonimbus thunderheads that builds up to form a ___________ line | show 🗑
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