Science weather Word Scramble
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Weather | The condition of earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place |
Meteorologists | scientist who study the cause of weather and try to predict it |
Forecast | A prediction of what the weather will be in the future |
temperature | The average amount of energy of motion in the molecules of substance |
convection | the transfer of hot by measurement of a fluid |
Humidity | a measure of amount of water vapor in the air |
relative humidity | the percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount the air can hold at that temperature |
wind | The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to area of lower pressure |
cumulus | Cloud that form less than 2 kilometer above the ground and look like fluffy, rounded, piles of cottons |
stratus | clouds that form in flat layers |
cirrus | wispy and feather clouds made mostly from ice crystals that form at high levels, above about 6 kilometer |
thermometer | An instrument used to measure temperature and consisting of a thin and glass tube with a bulb on one end that contains a liquid |
anemometer | an instrument used to measure wind speed |
Psychrometer | An instrument used to measure relative humidity and consisting of a wet-bulb thermometer and a dry-bulb thermometer |
air mass | a huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout |
front | the area where air masses meet and do not mix |
cold front | when a cold air mass pushes against a warm air mass |
warm front | When a warm air mass pushes against a warm air mass |
tornado | a rapidly whirling, funnel- shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earth's surface usually leaving a destructive path |
hurricane | A tropical storm that has wind of 119 km per hour of higher typically about 600 km across |
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