CR Weather Instruments & Variables by Jennifer Stratton https://padlet.com/jstratton6/1mz2ogxcept5 Weather instruments and variables including temperature, dewpoint/relative humidity, wind direction and speed, and barometric pressure en-us 2018-07-02 04:42:49 UTC 2024-12-04 07:47:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Weather variables E-Text jstratton6 https://padlet.com/jstratton6/1mz2ogxcept5/wish/269119247 Click on the icon below to access Power Knowledge Earth-Space Science. Login using syrsls as the username and syrsls as the password.
Answer the E-text questions in your notebook as you read!

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Copy the following statement into your notebook:
Precipitation becomes more likely as air temperature decreases and relative humidity increases!

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What is Weather?
1. Which 4 factors combine to make weather?
2. Predict the "driving force" that affects all weather on Earth (HINT: the answer is in paragraph 1!)
3. List 3 examples of weather?
4. What is the weight of the air called? What is another name for this? (HINT: look at the vocabulary you copied into your notebook!)
5. Compare the weight and motion of warm and cold air
6. What causes wind?
7. Explain how precipitation forms in the atmosphere

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