Different forms of water
Scientific Vocabulary
Air Masses & Fronts
Air mass & Fronts (contintued)
Random Science
100
The process by which water molecules and liquid water escape into the air, as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
An underground layer of rock, that is able to collect and store water.
What is an aquifer?
100
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
What is an air mass?
100
Stormy, rainy dark clouds and/or precipitation.
What type of weather is associated with a low pressure system?
100
Tiny water droplets formed by condensed water vapor, tiny dist particles, and ice droplets.
What is a cloud?
200
The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air, cool down, and become liquid water.
What is condensation?
200
The varying temperature at which condensation occurs.
What is the dew point?
200
Cold, dense, fast moving air runs into warm, less dense air, and slides underneath it.
What is a cold front?
200
Sunny, warm weather.
What type of weather is associated with a high pressure system?
200
A five-step cycle including all the different stages, and temperatures of water.
What is the water cycle?
300
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the Earth's surface. Some examples include rain, snow, ice, and hail.
What is precipitation?
300
The amount of water vapor in a given volume of air.
What is humidity?
300
Warm, less dense, fast moving air runs into more dense, cold air, and slides on top of it.
What is a warm front?
300
An air mass with dry and cold temperatures.
What is continental polar?
300
When heat energy from the Sun transfers through the air and to the ground.
What is an example of radiation?
400
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid.
What is convection?
400
The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
What is wind?
400
A cold and warm air mass meet, but neither air mass, can move past each other.
What is a stationary front?
400
An air mass with cold and wet temperatures.
What is maritime polar?
400
When a warm and cold air mass collide against one another, and mix together.
What is a storm?
500
The direct transfer of heat between two substances that are touching.
What is conduction?
500
The direct transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
500
A warm air mass gets caught between two air cold air masses and is pushed upward.
What is a occluded front?
500
An air mass with dry and cold temperatures.
What is continental tropical?
500
**Where does Pleasanton get it's water from?**
-the Sierra Nevada rivers -rain (only 9%) -underground aquifers -Orville Lake -any other reservoirs and lakes
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