Water Cycle Review
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
A large body of air that has the same properties as Earth's surface over which it develops.
What is an air mass?
A front where cold air pushed warm air upward
What is a cold front?
A violent whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land
What is a tornado?
Draw the symbol for a warm front
Semi-Circle (red)
The process of water vapor being absorbed from trees
What is transpiration?
Forms where cold and warm air masses meet
What is a front?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
Hot air rises because is is this compared to cold air
What is less dense?
Draw the symbol for stationary front
semi-circle and triangle (red and blue)
Moisture condenses and falls to the ground it becomes this
What is precipitation?
The interaction of water, wind and air
What is weather?
When 2 cold air masses meet and the warm air gets pushed out
What is an occluded front?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
The different types of front bring this
What is different precipitation/temperatures?
The process of water vapor turning into a solid (form of precipitation)
What is snow?
A front when warm air pushes cold air out of the way
What is a warm front?
High pressure usually means this type of weather
What is good/fair weather?
Wind forms because hot air rises and cold air sinks, also known as.
What are convection currents?
When we modeled convections currents the blue water did this
What is sink?
Water that goes down a mountain into a lake
What is runoff?
When warm air and cold air meet but they do not have enough energy to move one another, resulting in weather that could last for weeks
What is a stationary front?
Low pressure usually means this kind of weather
What is rain/snow/clouds?
Draw the symbol for a cold front on a weather map
triangle (blue)
The word HIGH on the map represents this
What is air pressure?