Chapter 5 Predicting Weather.
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Transcript of Chapter 5 Predicting Weather.
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Chapter 5
Predicting Weather
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Lesson 1 – Air and Weather
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• http://www.mhschool.com/sciejournal/ejournal/rc_base.php?reportID=307&vGrade=0022841377&vUnit=D&vChapter=7
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thermometer• A tool used to measure
temperature.
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Temperature• A measure of
how hot or cold something is.
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Rain gauge• An instrument that
measures how much rain has fallen.
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Anemometer
An instrument used to measure wind speed.
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Wind vane• An instrument that
moves to show which way the wind is blowing from.
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Air pressure• The force
of air pushing down on an area.
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humidity• A measure of how much
water vapor is in the air.
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Atmosphere• The blanket of air,
or gases, surrounding Earth.
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Lesson 2 – Tracking the Weather
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Air mass• A large area of
the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout.
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frontA boundary between two air masses that have different temperatures.
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Warm frontA boundary between air masses where a warm air mass slides up and over a cold air mass.
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Cold frontA boundary between air masses where a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass.
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Stationary frontA boundary between air masses that are not moving.
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forecastA prediction or the act of making a prediction, often having to do with weather.
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Climate
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climateThe pattern of seasonal weather in a region that repeats year after year.
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currentA directed flow of a gas or liquid.