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14 Cards in this Set
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Wind
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The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
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Anemometer
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An instrument used to measure wind speed.
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Sea Breeze
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The flow of cooler air from over an ocean or lake towards land.
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Land Breeze
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The flow of air from land to a body of water.
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Coriolis Effect
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The effect that Earth’s rotation causes in the motion of objects and that explains how winds curve.
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Latitude
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The angular distance of a place north or south of the equator, expressed in degrees.
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Air Mass
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A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
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Front
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The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix.
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Occluded
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Cut off, as in a front where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses.
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Cyclone
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A swirling center of low air pressure.
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Anticyclone
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A high-pressure center of dry air.
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Meteorologist
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Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it.
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Weather
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The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place.
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Climate
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The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area.
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