Water Cycle
Jasmine saw her breath create a spot on a window. This is the water cycle stage she observe.
What is condensation?
Michael saw this change when he observed rain turn into ice pellets.
What is falling temperatures?
These people use technology to gather information and predict forecasts?
What is a meteorologist?
This term refers to the ground being full of water and not able to soak up anymore.
What is saturation?
This is the movement of air from high pressure to low pressure.
What is wind?
These three words describes how water vapor enters the atmosphere.
What is evaporation/transpiration/respiration?
This weather will likely result when a cold front is moving in.
What is severe weather (from warm air rising above cold air)?
These help people prepare for severe weather and help farmers know when to plant and harvest?.
What is a weather forecast?
This term refers to severe weather of extremely fast spinning column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
This causes warm and cool air to move.
What is convection currents?
This happens when the sun heats water molecules until they enter the air?
What is evaporation?
This type of front happens when cold air slides under warm air and the front becomes occluded.
What is a cold front?
This instrument is used by meteorologists to gather data about wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This extreme storm can stretch more than 600 kilometers across and it may have winds as strong as 320 km/h.
What is a hurricane?
This is the main cause of differences in air pressure that drive global winds.
What is unequal heating of the atmosphere?
This process in plants move water from roots to leaves before it enters the air.
What is transpiration?
Cody lives on Florida’s eastern coast. This kind of air mass occurs there?
What is maritime tropical?
Fisherman learn this from weather forecasts?
What is information about the seasons and weather?
These "mountains of water" make their way to land during a hurricane, causing coastal flooding.
What is a storm surge?
Winds that blow over long distances in predictable patterns, like trade winds or westerlies, are known as these.
What are global winds?
This process happens when breathing out releases water vapor into the air.
What is respiration?
This warm ocean current warms the air masses above the Eastern U.S.
What is the Gulf Stream
This type of weather can be predicted when the barometric pressures fall throughout the day.
What is stormy weather?
These storms create thunder, lightning, heavy rain, and sometimes hail or tornadoes.
What is a thunderstorm?
Giant convection currents in the atmosphere are produced by temperature differences between these two places on Earth.
What are the equator and the poles?