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Cloud Cover: 10/10 Wind: southeast,14 km/hr Air Temperature: 16'C Present Weather: rain on a weather station model? |
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Air pressure is measured with what?
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A breeze that blows form sea to land is called this.
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Does warm air or cool air hold more water vapor? Why?
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Plants release water vapor into the air through this.
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A body of rising warm air surrounded by sinking cooler air is called?
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Air Pressure decreases as altitude does this.
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Ninety percent of the air we breath is made up of these two things.
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Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all kinds of this.
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Air pressure is measured with what?
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A cloud that forms at ground level is called what?
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Puffy Clouds with flat bottoms are called what?
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Name the layers of the Earth's Atmosphere from the Earth outward. In which layer does weather occur?
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The weight of all the air pushing down in a certain place is called what?
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The levels of the four layers of the atmosphere are determined by sudden changes of this at each level.
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The changing of a gas into a liquid is called what?
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The amount of incomming solar radiation at a place is called what?
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Explain the water cycle.
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Sunflowers grow toward the sun. This is an example of what?
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What enables a living thing to survive in it's enviornment?
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The curving of the path of a moving object caused by the Earth's rotaion creates what?
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