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Weather Flashcards

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Barometer

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Used to measure air pressure.

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Barometric pressure

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Layers of gasses the push down on earth

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Cirrus cloud

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The predict the weather in the sky

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Climate

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The average weather in places for a certain amount of time

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Cloud

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They drop rain from the sky

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Drought

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A shortage of rainfall in a region

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Dew point

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When air is warm it holds water vapor

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Cumulonimbus cloud

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Move upward with rising air

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Cumulus cloud

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White and puffy and are made of water droplets

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Forecast

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Tells you what kind of weather you will have

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Front

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The clouds formed when a mass of cool air runs into a mass of warm air

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Funnel cloud

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Thunderstorms can make a funnel-shaped column of clouds. T

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Hail

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Sometimes, water droplets in clouds freeze. The frozen drops move up into the cloud, carried by strong winds.

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Humidity

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This is because air has a lot of water vapor in it.

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Hurricane

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Hurricanes are storms that begin over the oceans.

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Meteorology

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Air masses form over large areas that have similar weather. A

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Thunder

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Sometimes, when it rains, you see big flashes of light in the sky

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Thunderstorms

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Sometimes hot and cold air meet in the atmosphere.

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Tornado

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When a mass of cold air meets a mass of warm air, the cold air pushes the warm air up at great speeds.

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Tropical depression

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A hurricane usually starts as a low pressure system over warm tropical oceans.

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Typhoon

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is a severe tropical storm that originates in the Pacific Ocean, west of the International Dateline.

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Weather

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is what gives you an idea of how things are outside

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Air pressure

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It pushes down on thing on earth.

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