Water Cycle
Weather
Atmosphere
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The change in state of matter from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
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A swirling column of air or water around a central axis.
What is a vortex?
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This layer protects us from the sun's radiation.
What is ozone layer?
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The main thing hurricanes and tornadoes have in common.
What is a vortex?
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A region of a lot of tornado activity.
What is tornado alley?
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The change in state from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
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This gives heat and energy.
What is the sun?
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These are other gases found in the atmosphere (2).
What is carbon dioxide and water vapor?
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These bring clouds and storms.
What is low pressure system?
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Funnel clouds have been spotted in the area.
What is a tornado warning?
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Water in liquid or solid form that falls from the atmosphere to earth.
What is precipitation?
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Mild warmer weather, no clouds.
What is a high pressure system?
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This gas makes up 21% of the earth's atmosphere.
What is Oxygen?
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The journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.
What is the water cycle?
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This means the weather is favorable for tornadoes.
What is a tornado watch?
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Water that comes from the melting of snow in the mountains.
What is surface runoff?
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Warm air masses are _____ and will ____.
What is less dense and rises?
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This gas makes up 78% of the earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
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Transfer of heat by movement of large volumes of fluids.
What is convection?
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This is the main difference between hurricanes and tornadoes.
What is hurricanes form over water, tornadoes over land?
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Moisture from plants.
What is transpiration?
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Atmospheric conditions at a given time.
What is weather?
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The 4 main layers of the atmosphere in order from the earth up.
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
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Change from a solid to a gas without going through the liquid phase.
What is sublimation?
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Going from the gas to a solid without going through the liquid phase.
What is deposition?
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