Weather And Clouds

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As you move upward sea level

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Decrease

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The source of all energy in our atmosphere

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Sun

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This atmospheric layer blends with outer space

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Exosphere

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The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs

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Troposphere

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the layer with the highest concentration of ozone

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Stratosphere

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The process of water vapor changing into a liquid

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Condensation

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Due to the amount of gravitational force air pressure is greatest at...

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Sea level (earth's surface)

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Rain snow sleet and hail are

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Precipitation

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A large body of air that has the same properties as the surface over which it develops.

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Air masses

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Low layered gray clouds that produces light precipitation

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Stratosphere

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High thin white feathery clouds

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Cirrus

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Dew,clouds,frost are all forms of ...

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Condesation

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weather is caused by the interaction of air ,water and the...

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Sun

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Puffy white clouds with flat bottoms

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Cumuls

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Lines on a weather map that connect points of equal air pressure

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ISO bars

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Fog is a Cloud that forms near the ground

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Stratus

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This weather tool is used for measuring wind speed

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Anemometer

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A sling psychrometer is used to measure

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Relative humidity

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what tool is used to measure wind direction

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Wind vane

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Fast flowing,narrow ribbons like air currents

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Jet streams

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The place where cold and warm air masses meet is called

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Fronts

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A line on a weather map that connects areas of equal temperatures

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ISO therm

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What type of fronts produces violent storms

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Cold fronts

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Hurricanes form over

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Tropical oceans

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Along a warm front the warmer less dense air

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rising and sinking air

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A high pressure system would create what type of weather

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Fair weather

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Warm moist air rises over the ocean causing a

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Hurricane

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Name the layers of the atmosphere

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Troposphere Stratosphere Mesosphere Thermosphere Exosphere

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In what layer of the atmosphere would a jet pilot fly to avoid a storm

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Stratosphere

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Harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun are primarily absorbed by

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The ozone layer

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Which two gases are found in the greatest amounts in our atmosphere

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Nitrogen and oxygen

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Why would a town in the desert not experience early morning fog

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Less water vapor

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How do surface ocean currents affect climate

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Atlantic is warmer than pacific

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what causes the formation of land and sea breeze

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Land heats cool more quickly

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the jet stream flows fromCanada what kind of weather will it bring

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Cold

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Clouds form from warm air rising expanding cooling and become saturated then water condenses into tiny water droplets

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Water vapor

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If the ozone layer disappears life on earth would be exposed to levels of uv rays

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Higher

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In a experiment the VARIABLE that stays the same is called

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A controlled variables

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This current affects North America by bringing cooler polar waters southward and cooling the pacific coast

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California

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Air flowing in This region of earth results from the sun heating the surface near the equator causing warm air to rise cool and descend near 30 latitude

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Tropical

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Why would a city in the middle of a continent have warmer summers and cooler winters than a city near the coast at the same elevation.

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Land has less heat

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This current brings warmer water northeast warming the Atlantic coast

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Gulf Stream