Water Cycle
Water turning from vapor into rain droplets.
What is condensation?
List the steps of the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
Who studies and reports weather and climate changes?
meteorologists
As warm air rises, cold air rushes in, which causes...
What is wind
A) desert
B) tornado
C) hurricane
D) thunderstorm
Describe transpiration
The exhalation of water vapor through plant leaves.
The process of water vapor from evaporation combining with dust a losing energy to form clouds.
What is condensation?
True or false. Meteorologists can use patterns in climate to help make predictions.
True
a pattern of temperature and precipitation over weeks, days or a year most likely describes what?
An area's weather
It's been raining for a week.
Weather or Climate
What is weather
The main component of the water cycle that the sun causes.
What is evaporation?
True or false: The water cycle continues on and on.
True
The sun's energy drives the _______, which determines precipitation. In this way, the sun influences climate of a given region.
water cycle
Name three ways we can describe the weather.
A map shows hurricane Andrew in May in Miami in 1992. Is it depicting the climate of Miami or the weather?
The weather condition of Miami because it shows the precipitation over a few days.
What is the driving force of the water cycle?
What is the sun
What processes put water vapor into the atmosphere?
evaporation, transpiration, and respiration
What does climate mean?
What is climate is the average weather conditions over a long period of time:.
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere at any given point.
What is humidity?
I love wearing my Holiday sweaters in December when it's cold.
Weather or Climate
What is climate
Evaporation and precipitation are ______ in the atmosphere; if evaporation increases, precipitation _______.
balanced; increases
Rain, sleet, snow and hail are some examples of this.
What is precipitation?
Tropical zones along the equator tend to be humid, warm and have lots of precipitation. why is this?
They are exposed to more sunlight, causing warm water to evaporate and precipitate more frequently.
What weather tool measures the amount of rainfall in a given location?
What is a rain gauge?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is the natural conditions of the sky, precipitation, wind direction, wind speed, temperature, air pressure, and relative humidity in a specific area; whereas climate is the average weather conditions over a long period of time.