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wether vocabulary
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Science
6th Grade
03/21/2006

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Anemometer
Definition
a gauge for recording the direction ofthe wind and the speed for the wind
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Wind vane
Definition
a device attached to an elevated structureand it rotats freely for the direction of the wind
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Barometer
Definition
it's a instrument for messuring pressure of the wind
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Overcast
Definition
Gloomy or melancholy
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rain gage
Definition
a devise for mesuring rain fall
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cold front
Definition
the advancing mass of colder air
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warm front
Definition
the front of an advancing mass of warmer air
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low pressure
Definition
air mass of lower pressure
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high front
Definition
air mass of higher than normal pressure
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Air mass
Definition
large body of air with only small horizontal variations
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Weather map
Definition
a meteorological conditions over a specific geographic area
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Satellite
Definition
a satillit for meuring the wether
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humidiy
Definition
water vaporin the air
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relitive humanity
Definition
mesurement that compiars the amount of water vapor in the air can hold at a certain tempeture
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dew point
Definition
thetenpiture at which a volume of air that cannot hold more water vapor
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relitive humity
Definition
mesurement that compares the amount of water vapor in the air that it can hold
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dew piont
Definition
the tempiture at which a volume cannot hold any more water vapor
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air mass
Definition
a large body of airhaving similar properties or weather conditions
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front
Definition
the boundry between warm and cold air mass
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