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Thermometer (def) | Instrument used to measure temperature |
Weather (def) | The state of the atmosphere at a given place & time |
Dew (def) | Formed when water vapor condenses after it has reached the dew point |
Meteorology (def) | The study of the atmopshere or of weather |
Thermosphere (def) | Highest & hottest layer of the atmosphere |
Stratosphere (def) | The 2nd layer of the atmosphere, which contains the ozone layer & gets hotter with increasing altitude |
Troposphere (def) | The lowest layer of the atmosphere; only layer where weather occurs; temperature decreases with altitude |
Mesosphere (def) | Coldest layer of the atmosphere |
Atmospheric layer of the jet stream | Stratosphere |
Coldest layer of the atmosphere | Mesosphere |
Warmest layer of the atmosphere | Thermosphere |
Atmospheric layer of Auroras | Thermosphere |
Frost (def) | Frozen Condensation formed when the surface the water condenses on is freezing or below freezing |
Anemometer (def) | Instrument that measures wind speed |
Sea Breeze (def) | Cool breeze off of the ocean due to air on land heating up and rising away |
Land Breeze (def) | Warm breeze off of the land due to cool air sinking over the land at night |
Thermal Energy (def) | Total amount of energy present in matter |
Temperature (def) | The measure of the average kinetic energy in matter |