Weather Flashcards

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Air mass

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a body of air with horizontally uniform

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Continental polar

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Wet and dry

CP

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Maritime polar

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Wet and cold

MP

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Maritime tropical

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Warm and wet

MT

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5
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Continental tropical

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Dry and warm

CT

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Front

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boundary separating two masses of air

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Warm front

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A warm front is a front that brings warm weather probably with week of drizzling weather with cloudy skies it over takes the cold air

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Cold front

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A front hat b rings cold weather and gray skies with thunderstorms and slips under the warm air

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Occluded front

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When the weather goes into a pattern and and its ether warm air for a moment and then cold

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Stationary front

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A front were the weather is even with cold and warm air

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Wind vane

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Measures wind

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Rain gauge

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Measures rain

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13
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Thermometer

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Measures temperature

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14
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Hygrometer

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Measures moisture

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Barometer

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Measures air pressure

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Anemometer

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Measures the speed of wind pressure

17
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Weather

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Weather is a temperature that happens over a short period of time

18
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Climate

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Is temperature happening over a long period of time