Chapter 9 Vocab
This is water falling out of the sky.
What is precipitation?
This is the imaginary line that runs through the poles.
What is the axis?
What is 0°C or colder?
These are the two gases the sun is made of.
What are hydrogen and helium?
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This is the star closest to the earth and the center of the solar system.
What is the sun?
This is the kind of weather that brings precipitation?
What is moist air touching colder air and condensing?
These are the colors of the hottest and coldest star colors.
What are blue and red?
This is how water moves from the ground to the sky and back.
What is the water cycle?
This is a something that orbits a planet?
What is a moon?
This is where the most storms form.
What is at a front?
Describe three weather instruments and what they measure.
Anemometer - wind speed
Weather/Wind vane - wind direction
Thermometer - temperature
Barometer - air pressure
Rain Gauge - precipitation
This is a large body of air.
What is an airmass?
These are the small rocks orbiting the sun mostly between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
What are groundwater and runoff?
Why it is warmer at the equator than at the poles?
It is warmer because the sunlight hits the earth more directly and transfers more energy than at the poles where it hits indirectly.
This is where two different kinds of air meet.
What is a front?
This is a giant system of billions of stars, planets, gases, and dust.
What is a galaxy?
This is the most dangerous part of a typhoon that kills the most people.
What is the storm surge?
Why do we see different star in different seasons?
Because we are looking at different parts of the galaxy when the Earth is facing away from the sun at night.