Parts of the water cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
Fronts
Air masses
100
This is the process of water becoming a gas.
What is evaporation.
100
How is a cloud formed?
Condensation
100
What is evaporation?
The process of liquid water turning into a gas and rising.
100
What is a warm front?
When a warmer air mass runs into a cold air mass and slides over it.
100
What are the four types of air masses?
Maritime Tropical, Maritime Polar, Continental Tropical and Continental Polar.
200
When water droplets become too heavy and fall as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is precipitation.
200
Name two common clouds in closer proximity to the surface of the ground.
What is Cumulus and Stratus.
200
What is an air mass?
Huge body of air that has similar temperatures, humidity and pressure.
200
What are the four types of fronts?
Cold fronts, Warm fronts, Stationary fronts and Occluded fronts.
200
What type of whether would you expect from a Continental Polar air mass?
Cold and dry weather.
300
When water vapor rises too high and cools forming water droplets.
What is condensation.
300
A mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystal that form in the atmosphere.
What is cloud.
300
What is a front?
A boundary where unalike air masses meet but don't mix.
300
When does a cold front form?
When a cold air mass slides underneath a warm air mass.
300
What is a Cold and Wet air mass called?
Maritime Polar.
400
The place where flowing water escapes into a larger body of water.
What is a runoff.
400
This cloud is associated with thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus.
400
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in a given volume of air.
400
What is a Stationary front?
A front where two different air masses meet but don't move past each other.
400
What whether is associated with a Continental Tropical air mass?
Warm and dry weather.
500
When rain water seeps into the ground and into another source of water.
What is infiltration.
500
What do clouds need to form?
Water vapor, dust particles, and below dew point temperature.
500
What is a Dew Point?
The temperature in which condensation occurs.
500
What happens to warm air in an Occluded front?
A warm air gets caught between two cold air masses and is pushed up.
500
What weather comes from any Maritime air mass.
Humid/wet weather.
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