Air
This is the layers of air that surround Earth’s surface
Conditions of Earth’s atmosphere at a certain time and place
What is Weather?
This is how hot or cold the air is
What is temperature?
The movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to Earth’s surface as precipitation
What is The Water Cycle?
When clouds become too heavy, the water droplets fall to Earth’s surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipiation?
a large body of air that has about the same temperature, air pressure, and moisture
What is an air mass?
This is the study of weather. This involves the measuring of conditions near Earth’s surface and high in the atmosphere.
This is the weight of air as it presses down on Earth.
What is air pressure?
When water changes from a liquid to a gas
What is evaportation?
this is precipitation that flows downhill on Earth’s surface to rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans
What is runoff?
moist air masses
This is a prediction of what the weather will be for a certain day, week, or longer period of time.
What is a forecast?
what are clouds that forms close to the ground
What is fog?
When some precipitation soaks into the ground.
What is infiltration?
This forms when drops of rain freeze in the cloud and are carried higher into the cloud freezing over and over before falling to Earth’s surface
What is hail?
This is when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
This is the usual weather conditions of a place over an extended amount of time.
What is climate?
The place where two air masses meet
What is a front?
When a water changes from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
This is when precipitation collects in rivers, streams, oceans, and lakes allowing it to be evaporated and beginning the water cycle again
What is collection?
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere
What is the troposphere?
Low-level cloud that forms in layers and usually brings rain
What is a stratus cloud?
This measuring instrument collects and measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen in an area
what is a rain gauge?
this is rain that freezes as it falls to Earth’s
surface
What is sleet?