The Earth
The Water Cycle
Air Mass
Weather Tools
Misc.
100
3/4 of the Earth's surface is covered in this.
What is water
100
evaporation
What is the process of changing from water to water vapor?
100
warm and humid
What is the kind of air mass that would form over a tropical ocean?
100
anemometer
What is an instrument used to measure wind speed?
100
dry and sunny weather
What is the kind of weather you get with high air pressure?
200
Most of the Earth is covered in this kind of water
What is salty water in oceans and seas?
200
condensation
What is the process of water vapor changing to liquid water?
200
front
What is what happens when 2 air masses collide
200
barometer
What is an instrument used to measure air pressure?
200
damp and cloudy
What is the kind of weather you get with low air pressure.
300
the area around the Red Sea is hot and dry
Why is the Red Sea saltier than other seas?
300
precipitation
What is anything that falls from the sky?
300
cold front
What is something that happens when a moving cold air mass runs into a warm air mass?
300
wind vane
What is an instrument used to show the direction of the wind?
300
the kind of clouds along a warm front
What are stratus clouds?
400
fresh water
What is the smallest percentage of water on earth?
400
What are the 3 stages of the water cycle?
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
400
warm front
What happens when a moving warm air mass collides with a cold air mass?
400
meteorologist
Who is a scientist that studies the weather?
400
curved lines on a weather map
What are symbols on a weather map that connect areas with the same air pressure?
500
from west to east
What is the direction the global winds in the United States blow?
500
the three states of water
What is the amount solid, liquid, and gas
500
long period of light rain and low, dark clouds
What kind of weather will most likely accompany a warm front?
500
thermometer
What is an instrument used to measure temperature?
500
greenhouse gases
What do scientist use to predict Earth's climate far in the future?
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