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Weather Vocabulary

Explore essential weather vocabulary focusing on the Earth’s atmosphere, including key concepts like air pressure, different atmospheric layers such as the troposphere and stratosphere, and the greenhouse effect. Learn about air masses and fronts, as well as various cloud types, from fair weather cirrus to heavy cumulonimbus. Familiarize yourself with important instruments like the barometer, hygrometer, and anemometer for measuring air pressure, humidity, and wind speed. Enhance your weather knowledge with this concise guide!

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Weather Vocabulary

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  1. Weather Vocabulary

  2. The layer of airthat surrounds our planet

  3. atmosphere

  4. Particles of air pressing down on the Earth’s surface

  5. air pressure

  6. The layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that is closest to the Earth

  7. troposphere

  8. The layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that contains the ozone

  9. stratosphere

  10. The warming of the Earth caused by the atmosphere trapping thermal energy from the Sun

  11. Greenhouse effect

  12. A huge body of air that has similar temperature and moisture

  13. Air mass

  14. The border where two air masses meet

  15. Front

  16. Wispy, high-altitude clouds that are made up of ice crystals *fair weather

  17. cirrus

  18. Puffy cotton-ball clouds that form when water droplets condense at middle altitudes

  19. cumulus

  20. Towering dark rain clouds with a nimbus, or halo, of gray-white *thunderstorms, rain

  21. cumulonimbus

  22. Dark gray clouds that form a low layer and sometimes brings light rain or snow showers *blanket

  23. stratus

  24. Instrument that measures air pressure

  25. barometer

  26. The amount of water vapor in the air

  27. Humidity

  28. An instrument that measures moisture in the air

  29. hygrometer

  30. An instrument that is used to measure wind speed.

  31. anemometer

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