Vocabulary
The study of weather
What is Meteorology?
To predict weather, meteorologists predict 5 properties of this.
What is air?
The part of the hydrologic cycle where water travels from the earth to the sky
What is evaporation?
The day-to day state of the atmosphere
What is weather?
One of the 2 major regions of the atmosphere that is a layer of well-mixed gases
What is the homosphere?
Moisture falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
White, puffy, flat bottomed clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
What is condensation?
Conditions of a certain area over a long period of time
What is climate?
One of the 2 major regions of the atmosphere that is characterized by several layers of different gases.
What is the heterosphere?
A force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules
What is air pressure?
Warm advancing air that will move over a mass of cold air
What is a warm front?
The part of the hydrologic cycle where water falls back to Earth from the sky in the form of rain, snow, or other moisture
What is precipitation?
Currents of air high in the troposhpere at places where masses of rising warm air and falling cool air intersect
What are jet streams?
The barrier of the upper edge of the mesosohere
What is the mesopause?
Air pressure is measured with this
What is a barometer?
Boundary where a mass of cold air pushes against a warm air mass often creating violent storms.
What is a cold front?
Another name for the hydrologic cylce
What is the water cycle?
Predictable, notable wind patterns that sailors used to travel around the world
What are trade winds?
Massive waves resulting from underwater earthquakes or volcanic explosions
What are tsunamis?
Humidity is measured with this
What is a hygrometer?
Climate oscillation paterns tell us that weather is this
What is cyclical or connected?
When warm moist air is coole enough, droplets will collect to form this
What is a cloud?
Locations north and south of the equator where winds are light and fickle
What are the doldrums?
SCUBA stands for this
What is a Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus?