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What is the process called when a gas turns into a liquid?

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What is the process called when a liquid turns into a gas?

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What term describes the building up of water droplets?

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What is the temperature at which the air is saturated called?

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What effect deflects particles such as air to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere?

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What is the change in frequency of sound or light with the change in position called?

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What term describes weather patterns over an extended period?

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What term describes the current state of the atmosphere?

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What is the violent whirling column of air in contact with the ground called?

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As pressure increases, what happens to temperature?

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What is the amount of moisture an air mass can hold based on temperature called?

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As temperature increases, what happens to density?

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What causes wind?

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What type of weather is associated with a low-pressure system? What about high-pressure systems?

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Where can tornadoes occur?

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What limits thunderstorms?

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What is latent heat's role in cloud formation?

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What effect does the burning of fossil fuels have?

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How does air move in a high-pressure system? Does it rise or sink? What about a low-pressure system?

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Know the characteristics, symbols, and weather associated with all four types of fronts.

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What key factors play a role in the formation of hail?

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Know what the weather instruments each measure.

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Know the temperature and amount of moisture associated with the five types of air masses.

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Look at pictures of thunderstorm development and be able to put them in order (cumulus, mature, dissipation).

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What do isobars that are close together indicate? What about when they are far apart?

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