The Water Cycle
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the process through which water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
Moving air.
What is wind?
A pattern over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This happens when water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
What the atmosphere is like at a given time and place.
What is the weather?
Meteorologists use this tool to help them collect weather data.
What is a barometer?
The imaginary line that divides earth into its northern and southern hemispheres.
What is an equator?
These are classified according to their shape and how high above earth they are.
What are clouds?
Three kinds of percipitation that falls from the ground to the earth's surface.
What is rain, snow, and hail?
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
This is the part of a hurricane that is calm.
What is the eye?
These things are affected by the climate.
What are animals and plants?
This tool measures the direction of wind.
What is a wind vane?
Rain that seeps into the ground and remains stored there.
What is groundwater?
What is air pressure?
Wind carries air masses from one place to another in this direction.
What is east to west?
Most of the United States is in this climate zone.
What is temperate?
________ air can hold more water vapor than _______ air.
Warmer, cooler.
This is a huge body of rock that store water for other people.
What is an aquifer?
Water that cannot sink into the ground and instead flows across Earth's surface.
What is run- off?
Air particles are close together and the air pressure is high.
What happens in cold air?
Tropical climate zones that are hot all year round and located near here.
What is the equator?
These clouds are low gray clouds that signal rain.
What are stratus clouds?