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34 Cards in this Set
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What heats up faster, water or land?
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Land
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What time of day is the sunlight the most indirect?
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At sunrise and sunset.
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What is the name for a scientist who studies the weather?
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meteorologist
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What is the name for an area where cold air presses on the earth with great pressure?
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A high pressure area
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What tool measures air pressure?
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A barometer
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What type of barometer works because air presses down on a liquid in a dish and sends the liquid up a tube with markings?
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A mercury barometer
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What kind of cloud forms when warm, moist air moves high into the sky? (It looks like a cotton ball, and brings fair weather)
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cumulus cloud
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What is a tool that measures wind direction?
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wind vane
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Where is a safe place to be when there is a tornado warning in your area?
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the basement or in a center room of your house.
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At what time of day is sunlight most direct?
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At noon.
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Name three kinds of storms that require safe action?
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tornado, thunderstorm, and a hurricane.
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A wind vane points in the direction that the wind is...
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coming from
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What tool is used to measure air temperature?
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A thermometer.
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What does the earth do to the heat that it takes in?
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It releases it to the air.
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What does the liquid in a thermometer do when it gets warm?
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It rises because it expands.
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What is the name of the government agency that collects and shares information about the weather in the United States?
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National Weather Service
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What is a tool that measures wind speed?
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An anemometer
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What is the pressing down of air on a surface called?
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air pressure
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What kind of cloud forms high in the sky where the temperature is very cold?
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cirrus cloud
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What kind of cloud forms low gray layers across the sky and brings stormy weather?
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stratus cloud
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What do you call a prediction of what the weather will be?
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forecast
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What is the name for an area where warm air rises and presses down on the earth with less pressure?
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A low pressure area
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What kind of front forms when cool air forces warm air upward?
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cold front
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What is a large body of air with the same temperature and humidity throughout?
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air mass
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What kind of precipitation forms when balls of ice keep getting pushed higher into the sky getting larger and larger until they finally fall?
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hail
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What do you call moisture that falls from the sky?
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precipitation
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When water vapor gets high enough in the sky where it is cold, it turns into droplets of water. What is this called?
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condensation
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What tool measures humidity?
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hygrometer
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What is the name for the amount of moisture in the air?
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humidity
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In the water cycle, water on the earth's surface rises. What is this called?
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evaporation
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What tool measures precipitation?
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rain gauge
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What kind of front forms when warm air slides slowly over a cooler air mass?
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warm front
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What do you call the line where two different air masses meet?
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front
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During what season is the longest day of the year?
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Summer
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