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| Weather forecasting improved because of this. |
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1.Technological improvement in gathering weather data
2. Using computers |
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| What are instruments that measure air pressure? |
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| When you rise in the atmosphere, what happens to the air pressure? |
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| Where do hurricanes form over? |
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| WHat are lines on a weather map that join areas with the same tempuratures? |
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| What weather would a continental air mass coming from Mexico bring (continental tropical) |
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| It would bring hot, dry weather |
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| What measures relative humidity? |
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| What type of clouds do thunderstorms come from? |
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| Cumulonimbus, also known as thunderheads |
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| What states are in the U.S. tornado alley? |
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| South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas |
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| What measures wind speed? |
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| What are the 3 main types of clouds? |
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| Cirrus, cumulus, and stratus |
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| As altitude increases, does density increase? |
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