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5th Grade Science Weather Vocabulary Cards

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Humidity Air mass Occluded front

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Sea breeze Air pressure Weather


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Land breeze Climate Stationary front
3 13 23
Mountain breeze Run-off Cloud
4 14 24
Evaporation Valley breeze Meteorologist
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Water cycle Condensation Precipitation
6 16 26
Temperature Barometer Psychrometer
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Tropical Zone Troposphere Atmosphere
8 18 28
Altitude Cumulus Stratus
9 19 29
Cirrus Polar Zone Temperate Zone
10 20 30
A large body of air that has the
The amount of water vapor in same temperature and level of The area in which a warm air
the air humidity throughout mass is caught between two cold
1 11 air masses 21
The movement of air caused by
The weight of the air in an area The state of the atmosphere at
cool air over the ocean moving
a certain time and place
toward the land
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The movement of air created The average weather The area in which a warm air
by cool air over the land conditions of an area over a mass and a cold air mass meet.
moving toward the ocean very long period of time Neither have the energy to
3 13 move one another 23
The movement of air caused by Rain that lands on top of a A collection of millions of tiny
cool air sinking and moving mountain, travels down to water droplets or ice crystals
down the slope of a mountain lower ground and joins larger 24
4 bodies of water 14
The change of phase from The movement of air created
A scientist who studies
liquid water into a gas by the warm air rising and
weather
(water vapor) flowing up the slope of a
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5 mountain 15
The movement of water on
The changing of a substance Any form of water that falls
Earth that moves between the
from a gas to the liquid state from the sky
air, the land, and the oceans
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Weather instrument used to
The measurement of the Weather instrument used to
measure the amount of
amount of heat in a substance measure air pressure
moisture or humidity in the air
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Layer of the atmosphere
Characterized by a hot climate, A blanket of gases that
closest to the Earth, all weather
and is located near the equator surrounds the Earth
happens here
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Elevation especially above sea Clouds of middle altitude, Clouds of low altitude, theyre
level or above the Earths large, puffy, and sometimes thin and stretch out across the
surface creative shapes sky, and block out sunlight
9 19 Ex. Fog 29
Characterized by a frigid Characterized by a seasonal
Clouds of high altitude, curly,
climate with harsh winter climate, wide range of
wispy, and made of ice crystals
temperatures, located near the temperatures, hot and cold
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poles 20 30

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