Water Cycle
If this is taken away from the water cycle then it would never occur.
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What is water?
Added this to the their city and experienced more rain because of it.
What is a lake?
Unit 5 is also called this.
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What is Weather Patterns?
The amount of air that moves as a unit.
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A cup of water is heated on a stove. The temperature of the water increases from 20°C to 35°C.
What is the change in temperature (ΔT) of the water?
A. 10°C
B. 15°C
C. 20°C
D. 55°C
What is an air parcel?
On a hot day, Maya pours a cold glass of lemonade. After a few minutes, tiny drops of water start forming on the outside of the glass. Where did the water come from?
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condensation
During evaporation, this causes liquid water to become water vapor when heated to the right temperature.
What is the sun?
More surface water plus more sunlight will equal bigger clouds which will cause more ________.
What is rain?
The mode in amplify that you can only adjust the sunlight to surface setting and the surface water setting.
What is Regional Weather 1?
The layer of the atmosphere that is closest to the surface of the Earth and is where all weather occurs.
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A. 2/4
B. 3/8
C. 4/4
D. 5/4
What is the troposphere?
On a hot summer day in Miami, the air feels very sticky and sweat does not evaporate quickly from your skin. What does this most likely indicate about the humidity in the air?
A. The air has very little water vapor in it.
B. The air has a large amount of water vapor in it.
C. The air temperature is below freezing.
D. There is no water vapor in the air.
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Answer-B. The air has a large amount of water vapor in it.
During the process of condensation, heat is transferred from a cloud to the surrounding environment which means the cloud loses this.
What is energy?
Another factor that caused more severe storms was the _______ weather.
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What is "warm" or "hot"?
Why do scientists use the Weather Patterns Simulation?
A. To control the weather in real life
B. To change and test weather factors that cannot be changed in real life
C. To make the weather warmer everywhere
D. To stop storms from happening
B. To change and test weather factors that cannot be changed in real life
A scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
Two ingredients needed for a cloud to form.
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What is heat (sunlight) and water?
What is the name of the process when water vapor in the air cools and changes back into tiny drops of liquid water, forming clouds?
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
D. Infiltration
Correct Answer: B. Condensation
The amount of storms that occurred after the lake was built in Galetown..
What is "three"?
During the last part of the sim under the mode REGIONAL MODE 1, what happens at the end?
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it rains
Energy comes from the sun, so we say that the sun is a _______ of energy.
What is a source?
A hot air balloon goes higher into the air because it gains more ______.
What is heat?
Which process in the water cycle happens when the Sun heats water in oceans, lakes, or rivers and turns it into water vapor?
A. Condensation
B. Precipitation
C. Evaporation
D. Collection
C. Evaporation
Another factor besides the lake and the heat that caused Galetown to have more severe rainstorms.
What is wind?
Water vapor is invisible and that is why you cannot see it in the air. But you can see the amount of it by the number. How does water vapor form?
Water evaporates when it becomes hot.
Someone who uses factors such as temperature, air pressure, humidity, and wind to reconstruct and understand the mystery of weather.
What is a Forensic Meteorologist?
On a sunny day in Phoenix, the air feels dry even though it’s very hot. You notice that puddles of water from the morning have almost completely disappeared. What is the main reason this happens?
A. The wind blew the water away.
B. The sun heats the water, causing it to evaporate into the air.
C. The air is full of water, so puddles disappear slowly.
D. The ground absorbs water faster than the sun can heat it.
Answer: B. The sun heats the water, causing it to evaporate into the air.