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Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches earth’s
surface
What is Precipitation?
1,2
The condition of earths Atmosphere at a particular
time and place
What is Weather?
1,3
The horizontal movement of air
caused by differences in temperature
What is Wind?
1,4
The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix
What is a Front?
2,1
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere
What is a Storm?
2,2
The transfer of thermal energy from one object to another because of a difference in
temperature.
What is Heat?
2,3
Bands of high-speed winds about 10 kilometers
above earths surface.
What are Jet Streams?
2,4
A huge body of air that has similar temperature,
humidity and air pressure at any given height
What is Air Mass?
3,1
The name of someone who studies and predicts the weather
What is a Meteorologist?
3,2
An instrument used to measure temperature
What is a Thermometer?
3,3
Winds that blow over short distances
What is Local Winds?
3,4
The change that earth’s rotation causes in the motion of objects
and that explains how global winds curve
What is the Coriolis Effect?
4,1
The temperature in which a step in condensation begins
What is Dew Point?
4,2
The average year after year conditions of temperature,
precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area
What is Climate?
4,3
The flow of cooler air from over an ocean or lake toward land
What is Sea Breeze?
4,4
A measure of cooling that combines temperature
and wind speed
What is Wind Chill Factor?
5,1
The process where molecules of water vapor in the air become
liquid water
What is Condensation?
5,2
A measure of how hot or cold an object is compared to a reference
point.
What is Temperature?
5,3
The flow of air from land to a body of water
What Land Breeze?
5,4
An instrument used to measure wind speed
What is Anemometer?