Water Cycle
What is happening when water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere?
What the atmosphere is like at a given time and place is called?
Weather
What is moving air?
Wind
What is a long-term weather pattern of a place called?
Climate
What is water that is stored underground called?
Groundwater
Where does water vapor cool and condense?
in the atmosphere
What is liquid precipitation?
Rain
What is the change from a liquid to a gas?
Evaporation
Who are the scientists who study weather?
Meteorologists
What is the boundary between two air masses called?
Front
How is climate different from weather?
Weather describes what the atmosphere is like at a given time and place while climate is the average weather pattern over a course of many years. (30 years or more)
What is water that cannot soak into the ground and instead flows across Earth's surface?
Runoff
Where does the jet stream flow?
boundary between warm and cold air masses
What is solid precipitation that falls through cold air?
Snow
What is the mixture of gases that surround Earth?
The Atmosphere
What would allow a scientist to replicate the experiment of another scientist?
detailed scientific log
Which front forms where a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass?
Warm front
Name the three climate zones.
Temperate, Polar, and Tropical
What is a large, slow-moving mass of ice called?
Glacier
During a summer day clouds decrease amount of solar radiation that reaches the surface and cause cooler temps and during a winter night clouds insulate the surface and traps warm air making it warmer
True
What is precipitation that freezes near the ground?
Sleet
What is the change of a gas into a liquid?
Condensation
What is conduction?
heat transfer by direct contact
What is a map that uses symbols to show weather data?
Weather map
What is a jet stream and what does it do?
high speed band of winds up in the atmosphere
moves air masses
What is a body of rock that stores groundwater?
Aquifer
What are sea and land breezes?
ocean is warmer than the land at night resulting in a land breeze
land is warmer then the ocean during the day resulting in a sea breeze
What is solid precipitation made of layers of ice?
Hail
What is water that falls from clouds to Earth's surface? (all forms of water)
Precipitation
Beach sand being heated by the sun is an example of heat transfer by...
radiation
What dangerous weather condition has a funnel shape?
Tornado
What type of environment/area is dry with very little rain?
Desert
What tool measures air temperature?
Thermometer
What layer of the atmosphere is the ozone layer (protective layer) located?
stratosphere
What dangerous weather condition is a strong storm that forms over warm ocean water?
Hurricane