WeatherUnit-1st 9wks Word Scramble
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abiotic | characterized by an absence of living organisms; without life |
anemometer | an instrument that measures the speed and force of the wind |
atmosphere | the gases surrounding the earth or another planet - the air of a particular place |
biotic | pertaining to life or living things |
Celsius | relating to a temperature scale on which water freezes at zero degrees and boils at one hundred degrees |
hail | round pieces of frozen rain or a storm of this frozen rain |
meteorology | the science that studies the earth's weather and atmosphere |
precipitation | the act of water falling in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail - snow, sleet, rain, or hail that falls to the surface of the earth, or the amount of it that falls in a given period of time |
rain gauge | an instrument that collects and measures the amount of rainfall in a specific time and place |
sleet | freezing rain |
snow | soft, white flakes of ice that fall from the sky to the earth - snow is formed when water in the upper air freezes into crystals - a layer of such flakes |
temperature | the degree of heat or cold of an object or an environment - the measurement of heat or cold as shown in degrees on a thermometer |
weather | the conditions outside at a particular place and time |
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