Unit 5 Vocabulary Flashcard

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What is the Celsius scale?

Back

A temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.

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What is precipitation?

Back

Water that falls from clouds to the ground in the form of rain, sleet, hail, or snow.

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What does wind direction indicate?

Back

Where the wind is blowing from.

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What is weather?

Back

What the sky and air are like each day.

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What is the Fahrenheit scale?

Back

A temperature scale on which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees.

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What is a thermometer?

Back

An instrument used to measure temperature.

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What is the difference between weather and climate?

Back

Weather is the short-term atmospheric conditions, while climate is the long-term average of weather.

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What is a rain gauge?

Back

A tool used to measure the amount of rainfall.

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What is humidity?

Back

The amount of water vapor in the air.

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What is a weather forecast?

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A prediction of what the weather will be like in the future.