Vocabulary
Water Cycle
Air Fronts
Heat
Extra
100
The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor.
What is evaporation
100
Warm and wet air mass.
What is Maritime tropical?
100
Warm less dense fast-moving air runs into the denser cold air and slides over the top of it.
What is a warm front?
100
The transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
100
Water vapor, dust particles, and temperature below the dew point.
What is a cloud made of?
200
The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air became liquid water.
What is condensation?
200
A wet and cold air mass.
What is Maritime polar?
200
A cold and warm air mass meet but they cannot move past one another.
What is a stationary front?
200
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid.
What is convection?
200
The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure, to an area of low pressure.
What is wind?
300
Any form of H2O that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
300
Dry and warm air mass.
What is continental tropical?
300
A warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses and pushed upward.
What is an occluded front?
300
The transfer of heat by direct contact.
What is conduction?
300
Water changing from a liquid to a solid, losing energy.
What is freezing?
400
An underground layer of rock or sand that contains water.
What is an aquifer?
400
Dry and warm air mass.
What is continental tropical?
400
The air mass that moves northeast.
What is Maritime tropical?
400
An example of ___________: wax moving up and down in a lava lamp.
What is convection?
400
Water change from a solid to a liquid, gaining energy.
What is melting?
500
The varying temperature at which condensation begins.
What is the dew point?
500
The way a maritime polar air front moves.
What is east?
500
Cold dense fast-moving air runs into the warm less dense air and slides underneath it.
What is a cold front?
500
Example of ___________ a bare foot on hot sand at a beach.
What is conduction?
500
To cycle H20
What is the property of the water cycle?
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