Weather Word Scramble
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Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. |
Meteorologists | Sicentist whos study the cause of weather and try to predict it. |
Forecast | A prediction of what the weather will be in the future. |
Tempeture | The average amount of enegry of motin in the molecules of a substance. |
Convection | The trasnfer of heat by movement of a liquid. |
Humidity | A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air. |
Relative Humidity | The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maxium amount the air canb hold at it's temputure. |
Wind | The horizontal movement of air from a area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure. |
Cumulus | Clouds that form leaa than 2 kilometers above the ground and look like fluffy rounded piles of cotton. |
Stratus | Clouds that form in flat layers. |
Cirrus | Wispy feathery clouds made of mostly ice cystals that form at high levels above about 6 kilometers. |
Thermometer | An instrument used to measure tempure consiting of a thin glass tube witha bulb on one end that contains a liquid. |
Anemometer | An instrument used to measure wind speed. |
Psychrometer | An instrument used to measure relative humidity consisting of a wet bulb thermometer and a dry bulb thermeter. |
Air Mass | A huge body of air that has simular tem pressure an humidity thoughout. |
Front | The area where air masses meet and do not mix. |
Cold Front | When cold air mass pushes aganist a warm air mass. |
Warm Front | When warm air mass pushes agansist a cold air mass. |
Tornado | A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earth's surface ussaly leaving a destructive path. |
Hurricane | Atropical storm that has wind of 119km per hour or higher typically about 600 km across. |
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