Weather Vocabulary

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  1. 3. warming - a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants
  2. 4. - a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region
  3. 5. - the transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass
  4. 7. - a conical textile tube e used as a basic guide to wind direction and speed
  5. 10. gauge a device for collecting and measuring the amount of rain which falls
  6. 12. pressure - the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air
  7. 14. - an instrument for measuring the speed of the wind
  8. 15. - rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground
  9. 16. - is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air
  10. 17. - a device that measures temperature
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  2. 2. - scale of temperature on which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° under standard conditions.
  3. 6. -an expert in or student of meteorology; a weather forecaster
  4. 8. - the averaging of atmospheric conditions over long periods of time
  5. 9. - an instrument used for showing the direction of the wind
  6. 11. - a physical quantity that expresses hot and cold
  7. 13. - refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity