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Measures the temperature of air in F and/or C
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What thermometer?
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Measures the speed of wind
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What is anemometer?
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Measures air pressure
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What is barometer?
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A scale used to measure the force and speed of wind
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What is the Beaufort Scale?
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Scientist who tracks weather
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What is a meteorologist?
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Layered clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
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What are stratus clouds?
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White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair- weather clouds
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What are cumulus clouds?
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Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
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What are cirrus clouds?
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Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
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What is cumulonimbus?
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Dust particles, water vapor(gas) condensing into water droplets(liquid)
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What are the ingredients for clouds?
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The state of the air at a certain time and place
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What is weather?
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A book that contains data, forecasts, and fables
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What is an almanac?
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Red sky at night, sailors delight; Red sky in morning, sailors take warning
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What is weather folklore?
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Rain,hail, sleet
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What are forms of precipitation?
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An imaginary line that divides the northern and southern hemispheres
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What the equator?
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indicates a change in weather and possible storm
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What is a decrease or drop in air pressure?
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A large body of air of similar temps and humidity
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What air mass?
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A boundary where air masses of different temps and humidities collide
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What is a front?
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A mass of cold air advances to displace warm air mass
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What is a cold front?
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Lines on a weather map that connect areas of similar temperatures
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What are isotherms?
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Movement of air caused by air moving from higher to lower pressure
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What is wind?
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Lines on a weather map that connect areas of similar barometric pressures
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What is isobars?
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Another name for a twister
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What is a tornado?
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Prevailing winds colliding over warm waters and form from a tropical depression
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What are hurricanes?
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Winds that blow from west to east
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What are the Prevailing Westerlies?
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