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Weather Vocab Flashcards

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1
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the force that air puts on an area (related word: pressure)

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Air Pressure

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Tropical climates typically have very warm temperatures throughout the year. Temperatures vary from day to day but remain fairly constant from month to month. During the rainy season, which lasts an average of six months, rainfall is more or less constant. Central Africa and the part of Eastern Africa that lies south of the Sahara Desert has a mostly tropical climate. Regions near the equator, such as Gabon, Republic of Congo, and the northern third of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have the longest rainy seasons. The remainder of the year is dry.

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Tropical

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the metric temperature scale: Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, and it freezes at 0 degrees Celsius.

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Celsius

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large, fluffy, white clouds, often seen in fair skies; can develop into cumulonimbus clouds

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Cumlulus cloud

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thin, wispy-looking clouds; commonly found at heights greater than 6 km

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Cirrus cloud

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a device used to measure temperature

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Thermometer (weather definition)

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a region of low pressure with counter-clockwise wind rotation that develops into a hurricane or tropical storm

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Tropical Depression

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large-scale movement of water within the oceans in a certain direction

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Ocean Current

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the temperature at which water vapor in the air condenses into water

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Dew Point

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a storm with strong winds and rain that forms over tropical waters (related term: typhoon, tropical cyclone)

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Hurricane

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an area that gets little precipitation and has very little vegetation

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Desert

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a hurricane or tropical storm originating in the Pacific Ocean

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Typhoon

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the measure of how much water vapor is in the air

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Humidity

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(v) to analyze weather data and make an educated guess about weather in the future; (n) a prediction about what the weather will be like in the future based on weather data

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Forecast

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layers of gas that surround a planet (related word: atmospheric)

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Atmosphere

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small, icy balls that fall from the sky

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Hail

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a weather system that produces heavy precipitation, winds, lightning, and thunder

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Thunderstorm

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a collection of water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere

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Cloud

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water that is released from clouds in the sky; includes rain, snow, sleet, hail, and freezing rain

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Precipitation

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a prolonged shortage of rainfall

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Drought

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in weather, the boundary between two masses of air with different properties

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Front

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the study of patterns of weather

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Meteorology

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the temperature at which a liquid turns into a solid

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Freezing Point

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a funnel-shaped cloud or column of air that rotates at high speeds and extends downward from a cloud to the ground

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Tornado

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anvil-shaped cloud that is often involved in heavy or violent storms: Cumulonimbus clouds are also called thunderheads. (related words: cumulus, nimbus)

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Cumulonimbus Cloud

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a loud noise that happens when lightning heats the air and causes it to expand and contract quickly

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Thunder

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the properties of the atmosphere at a given time and location, including temperature, air movement and precipitation

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Weather

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a funnel-shaped cloud that forms over water and pulls water upward

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Waterspout

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a tool used to measure air pressure (related word: barometric)

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Barometer

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the slow warming of Earth’s atmosphere due to climatic change

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Global Warming

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a measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms in a system, used to express thermal energy in degrees

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Temperature

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the pressure (force per unit area) of the atmosphere against a surface

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Barometric Pressure

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a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud: Funnel clouds do not touch the ground

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Funnel Cloud

34
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the average weather conditions in an area (related word: climatic)

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Climate

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