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Weather And Climate Vocab Flashcards

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Air pressure

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The force exerted onto a surface by the wheight of the air

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Tropical

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Places that are especially humid

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Cumulus cloud

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Clouds that have a flat base and is usually called a puffy cotton like cloud

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Cirrus

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A thin whispy cloud

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Thermometer

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A glass tube filled with mercury to tell the temperature

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Tropical depression

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Tropical cyclone with maximum sustained surface winds of 38 mph or less

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Ocean current

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Horizontal moment of unusual cold or warm surface water

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Dew point

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the atmospheric temperature (varying according to pressure and humidity) below which water droplets begin to condense and dew can form

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Hurricane

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A storm with a violent wind

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Desert

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A dry barren of land covered in sand

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Typhoon

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A tropical storm

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Humid

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The state or quality of being humid

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Forecast

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To predict or estimate the weather

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Atmosphere

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The gas sorounding the earth and other planets

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Hail

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Frozen balls that fall from the sky

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Thunderstorm

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A storm with thunder and lightning

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Cloud

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A visible mass of water vapor

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Presepitation

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Rain,snow,sleet and hail that falls from the ground

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Drought

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Shortage of water

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Meteorology

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A branch of science that is concerned with that atmosphere

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Freezing point

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The point liquid turns solid

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Tornado

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A mobile destructive vortex

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Cumulonimbus cloud

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A dense vertical cloud

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Thunder

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A loud or crashing noise heard by lightning flash

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Weather

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The condition of the weather

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Waterspout

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A rotating comlumn of water and spray

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Barometer

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Something that messures atmosphereic pressure

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Global warming

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An increase in the earths temperature

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Temparture

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The telling if it’s hot or cold

30
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Barometric pressure

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Another term for atmosphereic pressure

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Funnel cloud

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A rotating funnel shaped cloud

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Climate

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The weather conditions

Weather and Climate vocab (1 decks)

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