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| An instrument that measures temperatures |
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| Instrument measures air pressure |
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| Anemometers measure what? |
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| What measures wind direction? |
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| A special hygrometer used to measure relative humidity |
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| What measures the amount of rain? |
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| What instrument is carried by a weather balloon? |
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| What uses radio waves to determine location, direction, and intensity of storm systems? |
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| What gathers information to create images by orbiting Earth? |
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| What large body of air that has similar temperature and humidity throughout? |
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| What are the four types of air masses? |
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- Continental Tropical
- Continental Polar
- Maritime Tropical
- Maritime Polar
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| Describe continental tropical air masses? |
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| Describe Continental Polar airmasses? |
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| Describe Maritime Polar air masses? |
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| Describe Maritime Tropical Airmasses? |
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| What is a boundary between air masses? |
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| What are the four types of fronts? |
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- Cold
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- Occluded
- Stationary
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| What is a pattern of meteorological symbols that represents the weather at a particular observing station recorded on a weather map? |
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| Lines on a weather map that join air at the same air temperature |
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| What is a destructive rotating funnel shaped cloud that forms when a thunderstorm meets high altitude horizontal winds that cause the rising air to rotate and become the smallest, shortest lived, and most violent type of storm known as? |
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| Lines on a weather map that join air at the same air pressure |
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| Continental air masses form over land and maritime air masses form over? |
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| Occluded air masses involve how many air masses? |
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| In what front does warm air move over cold air? |
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| Light rain and warmer temperatures |
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| Cold air under warm air causes a? |
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| Thunderstorms and cold weather |
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| As air cools it condenses into? |
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| Heavy rain that is accompanied by lightning and thunder is a? |
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| What is the electric discharge between oppositely charged parts of the air and ground? |
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| What is the sound from the heating and rapid expansion of air due to lightning? |
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| What is the most destructive storm that develops over tropical oceans as winds spiral in toward the low-pressure center? |
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| How fast do hurricanes move? |
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| What causes hurricanes to spin? |
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| Altitude, latitude, and ocean currents effect? |
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| As latitude increases what does temperature do? |
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| Prevailing winds and topography effect what? |
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| What increases in the troposphere as temperature decreases? |
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| These factors effect climate? |
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| Percipitation and Temperature |
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| Prevailing winds always what? |
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| Blow in the same direction |
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| The windward sides of mountains have this type of climate? |
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| The leeward side of mountains have this type of climate? |
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| This climate is 180o C and has no true seasons? |
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| What climate is 18o and has distinct seasons? |
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| What climate is 10o and has no distinct seasons? |
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