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26 Cards in this Set
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What is a device that measures wind speed?
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anemometer
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What is any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground?
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precipitation
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What is the force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it?
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air pressure
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What is the amount of the Sun's energy that reaches Earth at a given time and place?
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insolation
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What is a circular pattern of air rising, air sinking, and wind?
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convection cell
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What is the wind that blows from sea to land?
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sea breeze
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What is water in the form of a gas?
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water vapor
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What is the changing of a gas into a liquid?
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condensation
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What is a puffy cloud that appears to rise up from a flat bottom?
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cumulus cloud
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What is the changing of a liquid into a gas?
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evaporation
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What is a device for measuring air pressure?
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barometer
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What is the blanket of gases that surrounds Earth?
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atmosphere
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What the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time?
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weather
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What is the wind that blows from land to sea?
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land breeze
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What is a device that indicates wind direction?
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wind vane
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What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
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humidity
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What is the continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to liquid?
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water cycle
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What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth's surface?
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troposphere
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What is air that moves horitzontally?
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wind
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What is a line on a weather map connecting places with equal air pressure?
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isobar
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What is a high-altitude cloud with a featherlike shape, made of ice crystals?
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cirrus cloud
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What is a comparison between condensation and evaporation?
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relative humidity
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90% of the air we breathe is made up of what?
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hydrogen and oxygen
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what is the curving of the path of a moving object caused by Earth's rotating?
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Coriolis effect
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What is a cloud that forms at ground level?
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fog
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What is a cloud that forms in a blanketlike layer?
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stratus cloud
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