Water Cycle
Humidity and Pressure
Precipitation and Clouds
Patterns of
Modeling
100
Circle=cycle, which has no start/finish, but we say the water cycle begins at the __________.

Ocean

100

True or False:  High pressure is required for precipitation to occur

False

100

What do meteorologists call the precipitation that is the result of rain hitting the ground, but the ground's temperature was 28F degrees?

freezing rain

100

Which city in Florida experiencing a rainy morning and hot afternoon with the following humidity levels:

Jupiter 95%

St. George Island 55%

Pensacola  28%

Tallahassee 10%

Jupiter

100

What part of the water cycle is the water collecting on the underneath part of the jar's lid in the model shown in class?

Condensation

200

Evaporation is from a _______ to ________ state of matter, whereas condensation is from a ______ to a _________.

liquid to gas; gas to liquid

200
A high humidity day increases the chance of _______

Precipitation

200

Which types of clouds will NEVER precipitate?

cirrus

200

Stratus clouds are filling the sky.  If the pressure increases, temperature decreases, and the humidity decreases, there will be _______ clouds in the sky.

fewer

200

Putting bags over the leaves of trees is modeling how plants _________.

transpire

300

A lake drying up is the results of __________.  The clouds forming over that lake is a result of _________.  The cold temperature making it snow in Alaska that same day is an example of ____________.

evaporation, condensation, precipitation

300
Define humidity

The amount of water vapor in the air.

300
Why do more clouds form over the ocean during the day?

It is warmer during the day. (more evap.=more cond.)

300

What two things do meteorologist look at when deciding when and where weather is headed?

wind direction and wind speed

300

Two cups full of 100ml salt water were placed in the window in April in South Florida.  One was a closed system and the other was open.  What happens after 5 days?

Some of the water in the open system evaporated, but the water in the closed system remained.
400

Fully explain why the Smokey Mountains look the way they do.  The same phenomenon happens frequently in the Amazon Rainforest

Transpiration is occurring because of the amount of trees and plants in that area.

400
The humidity is high, there are strong winds, the temperature is 58 degrees, and the pressure is low.  What is most likely to happen?

heavy rain.

400
For snow to occur, we need a temperature lower or equal to ___ Celsius/ ____ Fahrenheit, and ____ pressure.  

0 degrees; 32 degrees; low

400

10F from the base of the cloud to the ground, stratus clouds, low pressure.  What precipitation am I?

Snow

400

Explain what the blue food coloring represents in the model and why it does not appear when the water recondenses at the top of the lid?

It represents the salt in the ocean and the fact the salt does not evaporate.

500

The complete water cycle:

The ________ warms the __________, which causes _________ to rise into the atmosphere.  It __________ in clouds, then the mass gets heavy enough, where ________ pulls it down, causing _________ (Examples: rain, sleet, snow, hail)

sun, ocean, vapor, condenses/collects, gravity, precipitation

500
A high-pressure system will result in _______ amount of clouds in the sky, and be mostly ________.

few, sunny

500
Daily Double!  Explain in DETAIL how hail is formed

Top of cumulonimbus clouds, ice crystals are being blown back up by updrafting winds, adding layers of ice until the mass is large enough for gravity to affect it.

500

less evaporation = ______ condensation = ______ precipitation = _______ ocean levels.

less; less; higher

500

What do the ice cubes at the top of the upside down lid in the water cycle model represent?

cold temperature at high altitude.

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