Weather Symbols And Tools Flashcards

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Air Mass

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A large body of air with similar properties through it.

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Maritime Polar Air

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Cold and Humid air

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Continental Polar Air

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Cold and Dry Air

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Maritime Tropical Air

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Warm and Humid Air

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Continental Tropical Air

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Warm and Dry Air

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Fronts

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Boundaries between two air masses

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Cold fronts

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They move in and cause warm air masses to rise

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Warm Front

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They meet and overside a cool air mass

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Weather

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The state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place

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Climate

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Climate is how hot or warm it is. Also how it is outside.

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Stationary front

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The front that stays in place because the warm and cool are crash together and also getting stationary from stationary front

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Occluded front

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when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it to expand.

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Thermometer

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Measures how hot or cold it is outside.

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Rain gauge

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Measures the amount of rain fall

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Barometer

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Measures air pressure

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Hygrometer

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Measures how humid it is

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Anemometer

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Measures the wind speed

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Wind vane

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Points where wind it coming FROM

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Radar

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An electronic equipment that finds out weather and where it comes from.