The Water Cycle
Water vapor is given off through the leaves in this process...
What is Transpiration
When cold and warm air fonts meet, but neither one can move the other
Stationary front
Form over oceans and are very humid
Maritime air masses
Meteorologist
A person who studies and predicts weather
Process where water vapor becomes liquid
Condensation
Sunlight heats up the earth's surface and draws water out into the atmosphere
What is evaporation
Forms when a cold air mass runs into a warm air mass and may cause heavy rains, wind, thunderstorms, and even tornadoes.
Cold Front
This air mass has less exposure to moisture, and are drier.
Continental Air Mass
Precipitation
Falls from the clouds in the form of hail, snow, rain, or sleet.
Band of high-speed winds about 10km above Earth's surface.
Jet stream
Water can stay below ground for a very long time in large what?
Forms when a fast-moving war air mass overtakes a slower-moving cold air mass. This may cause rain and clouds for a few days.
Warm Fronts
form in the tropics and have low air pressure.
Tropical Air Mass
Air Mass
a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, air pressure at any given height.
Anti-cyclone
What is the process in which water seeps into the ground and stays for periods at a time.
What is infiltration
A warm air mass get caught between two cold air masses
Occluded front
What would a warm air mass passing over the ocean most likely cause?
Rainfall
Cyclone
swirling center of low air pressure
Front
Toxic runoff can pollute a stream and also what?
Groundwater
What is the major cause of ocean waves?
Wind
What moderates air temperatures?
Large bodies of water.
Coriolis Effect
The invisible force that appears to deflect the wind and is responsible for currents' circulation pattern.
curved line on a map and shows air pressure
Isobar