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What measures temp. wind speed direstion air pressure, and relative humisity
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weather balloon
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what measures just temp.
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thermometer
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what measures just air pressure
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Barometer
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What measures wind direction
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Anemometer
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what takes images of weather systems
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Satellite
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what measures fronts, high low pressure and isobars
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weather map
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When liquid changes into a gas
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evaporatio
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wator vapor ( gas ) becomes a liquid creating clouds
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condensation
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rain snow fall from the clouds to earths surface
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precipitation
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water that flows over the land and collects in rivers lakes and oceans
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runoff
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Humiditiy
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the amount of wator vapor in the air
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Relative humidity
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is the amount of wator vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount of wator vapor the air...
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phychrometer
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measures relative humidity
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Air mass
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a large body of air where the temp and the moisture content are similar throughout
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Front
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area where 2 air masses meet
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