Vocabulary
Water cycle
Water cycle as a system
Air masses
Fronts
100
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid
What is convection
100
What percentage of Eath's water is found in the oceans.
97.25%
100
What are the boundaries
Atmoshpere, bodies of water, rocks and soil, and ice
100
Warm wet air mass
What is Maritime Tropical
100
Cold, dense fast moving air runs into warm less dense air and slides underneath
What is Cold front
200
An underground storage of water.
What is an aquifer
200
How do clouds form
When water vapor condenses into tiny droplets
200
what are the components
Mountains, sun, water, land, clouds, aquifer
200
Warm and dry air mass
What is Continental Tropical
200
Warm, less dense fast moving air runs into more dense cold air and slides over the top of it
What is warm front
300
The temperature at which condensation begins
What are dew points
300
What % of Earth's water is found in ice and snow
1.9%
300
What are the inputs and outputs
Water and energy
300
Cold and wet
What is Maritime Polar
300
A cold and warm air mass meet but they can't move past one another
What is stationary front
400
the transfer of heat by the electromagnetic waves
What is radiation
400
What is transpiration?
Plants use roots to absorb water from soil and release water vapor from the leaves
400
What are the interactions
Melting, freezing, erosion, precipitation, condensation, evaporation, infiltration, sublimation
400
Cold and dry
What is Continental Polar
400
A warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses and get pushed upward
What is occluded front
500
The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
What is wind
500
In what ways can runoff be a problem
It can cause serious problems like flooding and erosion.
500
What are the properties
To produce water and moving water
500
What two air masses hit California
What are Maritime Polar and Maritime Tropical
500
What type of weather is usually associated with a high pressure system
What is warm front
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