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Weather Symbols & Tools Flashcards

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Air Mass

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A large body of air with similar properties of temperature and humidity

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Maritime Polar Air

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Cold and Humid air that forms over water

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Continental Tropical Air

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Warm and dry, forms over land

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Continental Polar Air

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Cold and Dry, forms over land

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Maritime Tropical Air

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Warm and humid, forms over bodies of water

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Fronts

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A boundary separating two masses of air. The fronts are Stationary front, Occluded front, Cold front, Warm front

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Warm Front

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When a warm air mass meets and overrides a cold air mass. Brings long periods of light drizzle and warmer temperatures

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Cold front

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Forms when a cold air mass meets and causes a warm air mass to rise. Brings thunderstorms, heavy rain, or snow. Brings cooler temperatures and last for short periods of time

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Anemometer

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A tool used to measure wind speed

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Hydrometer/Hygrometer

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A weather tool used to measure the amount of moisture in the air (humidity)

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Barometer

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A weather tool used to measure air pressure including low and high pressure

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Ran Guage

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Measures the amount of rainfall

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Radar

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Measures rain and precipitation inside a storm

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Wind Vane

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A tool used to show what direction the wind is blowing from

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Stationary Front

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Forms when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass and results in little movement. Drizzles but has no heavy precipitation and has very little movement.

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Occluded front

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Forms when a cool air mass overtakes a slower moving warm air mass and keeps moving until meets another cold air mass. Brings cooler temperatures and more precipitation

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Weather

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The state of atmosphere with clouds, temperatures, precipitation, humidity, air pressure, etc.

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Climate

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Composite prevailing weather conditions of a region, as air, temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, clouds, and winds. It is averaged over a series of years.

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Thermometer

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A tool used to measure how hot or cold it is. (Temperature)

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