The Water Cycle
What is the full name of the cycle where water moves through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
What is the water cycle?
What is a large body of air with similar temperature and moisture?
What is an air mass?
What is the name of the warm ocean current that flows along the East Coast of the United States?
What is the Gulf Stream?
What is the source of energy that drives Earth's weather and climate?
What is solar radiation (the Sun)?
What term describes water that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
What is precipitation?
What is the process of water turning into vapor due to heat from the Sun?
What is evaporation?
Which type of front brings heavy rain and thunderstorms when cold air pushes warm air upward?
What is a cold front?
What drives the movement of thermohaline circulation?
What are differences in temperature and salinity?
What process traps heat in Earth's atmosphere and keeps the planet warm?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What tool is used to measure air pressure?
What is a barometer?
What happens when water vapor cools and forms liquid droplets?
What is condensation?
What weather conditions are typically associated with a high-pressure system?
What are clear skies and calm weather?
What is the climate pattern that occurs when ocean temperatures in the Pacific become unusually warm?
What is El Niño?
What is albedo a measure of?
What is how much sunlight a surface reflects?
What is the movement of air from high-pressure to low-pressure areas called?
What is wind?
How does the Sun drive the water cycle?
What is by providing energy for evaporation?
What is the name of a front where a cold front overtakes a warm front?
What is an occluded front?
How do ocean currents influence climate in coastal areas?
What is by transporting warm or cool water, which changes the temperature of the air?
What is the effect that causes winds and ocean currents to curve due to Earth's rotation?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is the temperature at which air becomes saturated, and condensation forms?
What is the dew point?
How does convection play a role in the water cycle?
What is it moves warm, moist air upward where it cools and condenses to form clouds?
What happens at a stationary front?
What is a boundary where air masses do not move significantly, causing long periods of rain or clouds?
What would happen if the Gulf Stream slowed or stopped completely?
What is colder temperatures in Northern Europe and disrupted global weather patterns?
What ensures that the amount of energy (heat) entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere stays equal over time?
What is the balance between energy coming into Earth (solar radiation) and energy leaving Earth (reflected or emitted radiation)?
What instrument measures the percentage of water vapor in the air?
What is a hygrometer?