General Knowledge
Dew forms during this part of the water cycle
What is condensation?
These carry warm water toward the North and South poles
What are currents?
The repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms
What is the water cycle?
All the waters of Earth (3/4 of Earth's surface)
What is the hydrosphere?
Ice crystals and water vapor
What is what are clouds made of?
What a barometer does
What is it measures air pressure?
This describes the movement of materials away from a place
Ex. Sand washing away in a storm
What is erosion ?
The weather conditions over a long period of time, at least thirty years
What is climate?
The solid rocky layer of Earth which contains rocks, soils, and minerals covering the entire surface of Earth
What is the lithosphere?
Low level clouds that cover the whole sky. They look dark because little sunlight gets through the layer of clouds. (Less than 2 km above the ground)
What is stratus clouds?
Water changing from a liquid to a gas
Ex. Water from the ocean or other bodies of water changing to water vapor in the form of a gas in the air.
What is evaporation?
A forecaster studying the climate of an area would find this most helpful
a. average yearly precipitation
b. today's barometric pressure
c. temperature changes in one month
d. how often natural disasters occur
What is the average yearly precipitation in that area or a.
When a gas, such as water vapor, turns into a liquid
What is condensation?
The state of the atmosphere, including temperature, wind, and precipitation
What is the weather?
Midlevel clouds that look like small, puffy balls. The bottoms of the clouds can look dark because sunlight may not reach them.
What is altocumulus clouds?
This forms when water vapor on a surface freezes without first becoming liquid water
What is frost?
Glaciers form these over a long period of time
What are valleys?
Water that falls from the clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
The process of laying down materials, such as rocks and soil
What is deposition?
High-altitude clouds that are often thin, wispy, and white. They form more than 6 km above the ground.
What is cirrus clouds?
The hydrosphere covers this percentage of Earth's surface
What is 3/4 or 75%?
Three factors that affect climate
What is latitude, elevation, and closeness to water?
The mixture of water vapor and other gases, as well as particles of matter such as dust that surrounds Earth's surface
What is atmosphere?
The height above sea level
What is elevation?
How the particles that make up a snowman end up in the ocean.
What is the sun melts the snowman and the snow evaporates into the air as water vapor. The water vapor condenses into a cloud. The cloud becomes full which causes precipitation. The precipitation falls into the ocean.