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| What forms over the ocean, is a low pressure storm, and is a spinning circular pattern? |
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| What forms in a cumulonimbus cloud, forms along a cold front or an air mass, contains lightening, rain, and thunder, and can produce tornadoes? |
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| What is a funnel- shaped cloud that comes down from a storm, and is likely to form along a front? |
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| __________ is the amount of water vapor in the air. |
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| __________ is the amount of force exerted by gases on an object. |
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| What type of pressure system can produce cyclones, and usually contains storms or other precipitation? |
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| What type of pressure system can produce anticyclones, and usually means fair weather? |
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| __________ measures temperature. |
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| ___________ measures wind direction. |
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| __________ measures air pressure. |
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| _________ measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen. |
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| _________ is when there is too much water in the clouds, and it falls to the ground as rain, snow, hail, sleet, or a mixture |
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| What type of precipitation flows to a body of water, or is absorbed into the ground? |
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| __________ is when water changed from a liquid to a gas (water vapor) which rises. |
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| When water vapor is released from plants it is called? |
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| When water vapor cools and turns back into water droplets, and the water droplets then form into clouds this process is called? |
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| As you go up, air pressure does _______ |
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| _________ front is when cold air comes in and forces warm air to go up. |
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| _________ front is when warm air moves in and covers the cold. |
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| __________ front is when warm air is closed out. |
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| _________ front is when cold air and warm air both move in and sit there. |
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| White puffy clouds are called? |
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| Thin, wispy clouds are called? |
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| Low level clouds, that look like sheets covering the sky are called? |
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