The Water Cycle
Elements of Weather
What Influences Weather
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Common kinds of precipitation.
What are rain, sleet, snow, and hail?
100
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
100
Describes air masses that form over water.
What is moist?
100
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a certain time or place.
What is weather?
100
Move from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What are winds?
200
Largest source of water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
The temperature at which more condensation then evaporations occurs.
What is dew point?
200
A boundary that forms between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
The measure of the transparency of the atmosphere.
What is visibility?
200
A large volume of air in which teperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
Energy in the form of heat; matter in the form of sand, mud, gravel, and sediment.
What can runoff transport?
300
Affected by fog and air pollution.
What is visibility?
300
Affects weather by increasing humidity.
What is evaporation?
300
Process where water seeps into the ground.
What is infiltration?
300
Tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
Tiny holes in plant leaves.
What are stomata?
400
Air with a relative humidity of 100%.
What is saturated air?
400
Fuels hurricanes and monsoons.
What is the ocean?
400
Streams, rivers, and the water that flows over land downhill due to gravity towards oceans, lakes, or marshes.
What is runoff?
400
Influenced by the geography of the local area.
What is local weather?
500
Source of 10% of water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
500
Tool that measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
500
The cool ocean current that cools the western coast of the United States.
What is the California Current?
500
The amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount of water vapor needed to reach saturation.
What is relative humidity?
500
Indicate the character of prevailing wind systems.
What are fronts?
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