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Weather vocab.
The weather
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Science
6th Grade
03/21/2006

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Anemometer
Definition
An instrument that can mesaure the wind force
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Wind vane
Definition
an instrument that rotated to show which way the wind is going, ad also a swirly thing on top of barns.
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atmospheric
Definition
anthing for esuaring pressure
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Overcast
Definition
foggy like weather; gloomy
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Rain gauge
Definition
A thing for measuring the amount of rainfall
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Cold front
Definition
cold weather that overcomes the hot weather
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Warm front
Definition
warm weather that over comes the cold weather
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Low pressure
Definition
often brings precipitation
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High pressure
Definition
an air mass of higher than normal pressure
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Air mass
Definition
A large body of air
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Weather map
Definition
the map the people at the weather station use to predict the weather
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Satellite
Definition
a machine that sends photographic images to a radar to project the weather
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humidity
Definition
water vapor in the air
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relative humidity
Definition
measurrement that compares the amount of water vapors in air with the amount the air can hold at a certain temperature
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dew point
Definition
the temperature at which a volume of air cannot hold any more water vapor.
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air mass
Definition
a large body of air having similar properties or weather conditions
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front
Definition
tbhe boundry between warm and cold air masses
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