Ocean floor features
This is the shallow, gently sloping edge of a continent under the ocean.
What is the continental shelf?
This term describes the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
These fluffy, white clouds are often associated with fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
Wind is caused by differences in this atmospheric property.
What is air pressure?
This long underwater mountain range forms where tectonic plates move apart.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Warm air is less dense than cold air, so warm air tends to do this.
What does rise?
These thin, wispy clouds form high in the atmosphere and are made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, creating this.
What is wind?
This is the deepest part of the ocean, often formed at subduction zones.
What is a deep-sea trench?
This process occurs when water vapor cools and changes into liquid water.
What is condensation?
Which types of clouds have low-level, grey, and sheet-like clouds that often cover the entire sky like a dull, flat blanket
What are stratus clouds?
This front forms when cold air moves under warm air, often causing storms.
What is a cold front?
This flat, wide region of the deep ocean floor lies between ridges and trenches.
What is the abyssal plain?
When air cools to its dew point, this can form near the ground.
What is fog (or dew)?
This is precipitation that falls as frozen water crystals.
What is snow?
This type of storm includes thunder, lightning, heavy rain, and sometimes hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
The movement of tectonic plates occurs in which layer of Earth?
What is lithosphere?
Why can warm air hold more moisture than cold air?
What is because warmer air has more energy and space for water vapor?
Explain how changes in air pressure and temperature can lead to cloud formation and storms.
What is warm, moist air rising into lower pressure, cooling and condensing into clouds that can grow into storm systems?
This large rotating storm forms over warm ocean water and can cause strong winds and flooding.
What is a hurricane (or tropical cyclone)?