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Eleamates Of Weather Concepts Flashcards

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Any form of water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

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Precipitation

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The amount of the Sun’s energy that reaches Earth

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Insulation

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Is a large region of air that has a similar temperature and humidity

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Air Mass

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A device for measuring air pressure

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Barometer

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Measures wind speed

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Anemometer

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Measures the heat of the air

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Thermometer

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Travel long distances around the world

Blows steadily over long distances in a predictable direction

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Global Winds

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The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.

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Air pressure

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The atmospheric layer of gases that is closet to Earth’s pressure

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Troposphere

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Marks the edge of a incoming air mass

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Fronts

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Is the amount of water vapor in the air

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Humidity

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What is this?
1. Moves clouds /precipitation
2. Makes sea and land breezes
3. Makes global and local winds
4. Wind speed affects how temperature feels on our skin ( Wind chill)
And 5. Caused by pressure systems
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Winds

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A measurement of the average energy of particles in a object.

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Temperature

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Is the height above Earth’s sea level

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Altitude

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This wind flows from east to west at altitudes above 12 kilometers

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Jet stream

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What is this?

  1. Dives all weather on earth
  2. Heats land and water
  3. Heats earth unevenly because earth is a sphere
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Sun

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  1. The closer it is to the equator the hotter it is
  2. The farther away you are to the equator the colder it is
  3. Imaginary lines drawn around the earth
    What is it?
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Latitude

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Is a area where oxygen and other gases, clouds, and weather are.

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Atmosphere

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A map that shows the weather in a specific point in time

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Weather maps

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Tools used to find what the weather might be at a certain time

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Weather Instruments

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  1. These winds don’t travel far

2. Some types of these winds are land breeze, valley breeze, and mountain breeze

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Local winds

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Dense

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Cold front

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Has cool dry air and brings cooler, dry, and clear weather

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High air pressure

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Has warm, humid air and forms clouds with stormy weather and precipitation

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Low air pressure

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Less dense

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Warm front

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