Water Cycle
Water turning from vapor into rain droplets.
What is condensation?
List the steps of the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, accumulation
The pattern of temperature and precipitation over several decades.
What is climate?
What is the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure?
Wind
What heats faster during the day, the land or sea? why is this?
The land heats must faster. It is a better conductor and water has a greater specific heat. This is why coastal areas have more consistent temperatures.
Describe transpiration
The exhalation of water vapor through plant leaves.
The process of water vapor from evaporation combining with dust a losing energy to form clouds.
What is condensation?
The ground constantly radiates its absorbed energy back into the atmosphere. What is the result of this?
The land is hotter than the water when the sun is out. When the sun goes down at night, the temperature of the ground decreases significantly.
a pattern of temperature and precipitation over weeks, days or a year most likely describes what?
An area's weather
A breeze that forms during the day when land heats up faster than water.
What is a sea breeze?
The main component of the water cycle that the sun causes.
What is evaporation?
As warm air rises, it expands and cools allowing the water vapor to condense. What is this?
How clouds form.
The sun's energy drives the _______, which determines precipitation. In this way, the sun influences climate of a given region.
water cycle
Thunderstorms are common near the equator, what is the primary source of the movement that causes storms?
heating by energy from the sun
A map shows hurricane Andrew in May in Miami in 1992. Is it depicting the climate of Miami or the weather?
The weather condition of Miami because it shows the precipitation over a few days.
Describe precipitation and the types of precipitation that can occur and when?
moisture in the air from evaporation condenses and falls back to earth in the form of rain, sleet, snow or hail. When temperatures are below freezing, snow is likely to result.
What processes put water vapor into the atmosphere?
evaporation, transpiration and sublimation
Tropical zones along the equator tend to be humid, warm and have lots of precipitation. why is this?
They are exposed to more sunlight, causing warm water to evaporate and precipitate more frequently.
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere at any given point.
What is relative humidity?
Who studies and reports weather and climate changes?
meteorologists
Evaporation and precipitation are ______ in the atmosphere; if evaporation increases, precipitation _______.
balanced; increases
Rain, sleet, snow and hail are some examples of this.
What is precipitation?
Why is a higher elevation colder?
In a higher elevation, the gravity is less strong by a fraction which causes there to be a thinner atmosphere, in turn which causes it to have less air, and be colder.*dramatic ending*
What is the weather currently? (Take a guess right where you are, 5 seconds to respond, temp. and sky conditions)
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is the natural conditions of the sky, precipitation, wind direction, wind speed, temperature, air pressure, and relative humidity in a specific area in an approximate 24 hour radius, whereas climate is the same thing, only it is the regular pattern of a specific area in a 2-Henry's Age (10) period of time. 😎