Vocabulary
Under Pressure
Climate or Weather?
Convection Currents & other stuff
More Weather
100

A statement about what you think will happen, based on what you know.

Prediction

100

the amount of force on an area.

pressure

100

Summers in South Carolina tend to be very hot and humid!

Climate

100

Movements of water that circulate in the ocean caused by global winds are called

ocean currents

100

The amount of water vapor in the air.

Humidity

200

Information that has been collected

Data

200

What kind of weather can you expect from a high pressure system?

Clear skies, sunny weather.

200

It is sunny outside today, but cooler than it was yesterday.

Weather 

200

How are convection currents formed in the air?

Warm air is less dense, so it rises.  Cold air sinks and moves in to take the place of the warm air.

200

Any form of moisture that falls from the sky.  (rain, snow, sleet, hail)

Precipitation

300

Average weather conditions for a region year after year. It's what we expect

Climate

300

What kind of weather can you expect from a low pressure system?

Stormy weather.

300


The Gobi Desert gets an average of 7.6 inches of rainfall a year. 

Climate

300

The Sun heats the surface of Earth, and then that heat energy is ________________ to the________.

transferred, air

300
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, it gets a lot of sunlight.

Equator

400

The 4 natural divisions of the year based on temperature and the amount of sunlight, caused by the tilt of the Earth

Seasons

400

When an air mass gets colder it becomes _______ dense, exerts more pressure, and____________

more, sinks

400

The state of the atmosphere over 30 years.

Climate

400

Convection currents, which affect weather and climate, are created by...

the uneven heating of Earth.

400

The process of a gas changing into a liquid is _________.

condensation

500

The current condition of the atmosphere.  (what is happening out your window)

Weather

500

When an air mass gets warmer, it becomes ___________ dense, exerts less pressure, and ____________.

less, rises

500

Jenny's roof sprang a leak last week because of all the rain

Weather

500

Look at the map of South America.  Buenos Aires and Capetown are approximately the same distance from the equator and are both located on the coast. How does the air temperature of Buenos Aires compare to the air temperature of Capetown? Why? 

The air in Capetown is colder than Buenos Aires. At Capetown, only a little energy is transferred from the ocean to the air because the current is coming from the South Pole. At Buenos Aires, a lot of energy is transferred from the ocean to the air because the ocean current is coming from the equator. 

500

What is the process in which water vapor changes directly into a liquid?

evaporation

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