The process of water evaporating from the leaves of a plant.
What is Transpiration?
100
What the atmosphere looks like at a given place and time.
What is weather?
100
The uneven heating of Earth's surface can cause differences in this.
What is air pressure?
100
Does high pressure or low pressure bring fair/good weather?
What is high pressure?
100
The average weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The percentage of Earth's surface that is covered with water.
What is 75%.
200
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
Warm air over land rises and cool air over water moves inland to replace it.
What is a sea breeze?
200
A structure that has tools for measuring and recording weather data at a given location.
What is a weather station?
200
This climate zone has cold temperatures year-round and low amounts of precipitation.
What is polar climate?
300
This provides energy for water to move through the water cycle.
What is the sun?
300
Measures the amount of water vapor in the air or humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
300
When cool air moves out to sea to replace the rising warm air.
What is a land breeze?
300
The symbol for a warm front on a map.
What is a line with red semi-circles?
300
Much of the United States is found in this zone.
What is Temperate Climate?
400
A body of rock that stores groundwater and can take up to a year to travel 25cm.
What is an aquifer?
400
The amount of water vapor in the air compared to what it can hold at a given temperature.
What is relative humidity?
400
The boundary where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
400
This instrument uses radio waves to track storms.
What is a Doppler Radar?
400
Wet air that forms over the ocean rises up the side of a mountain. Clouds form and precipitation takes place on the ocean side of the mountain, giving it a wet climate. The air, now dry, moves down the far side of the mountain giving it a dry climate.
What is a rain shadow?
500
Billions of water drops close together may form this.
What is a cloud?
500
Puffy,white clouds, flat bases, signal fair/stormy weather.
Thin, white, feathery clouds, signal fair weather.
Flat layers, cover most of the sky, signal rain.
What is cumulus, cirrus, and stratus clouds?
500
Air moves across Earth's surface in this direction.
What is high pressure to low pressure areas?
500
The average temperature in Florida this time of year is around 20 degrees C. This is closest to what degrees in Farenheit?
What is 70 degrees?
500
The factor that most directly affects the movement of air.