Vocabulary
Liquid water droplets suspended in the air.
What is a cloud?
These are the three states of matter.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
When an air parcel is warmer than the surrounding air, it will do this.
What is rise higher?
The troposphere is warmer at the bottom and this at the top.
What is colder?
The scientific study of weather.
What is Meteorology?
When water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
When an air parcel rises higher, this happens to the energy inside.
What is transfers out?
In the SIM, if no energy transferred, this wouldn't happen.
What is rainfall?
The mixture of gases surrounding a planet.
What is the atmosphere?
When water changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
When wind pushes on an air parcel, this happens.
What is rises higher into the troposphere?
This happens when an air parcel starts at a higher temperature and rises higher in the atmosphere.
What is greater a energy transfer?
The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
In order for liquid water to evaporate, this needs to happen to the molecules.
What is get hotter? (or have more kinetic energy?)
The more an air parcel loses energy and cools, the more this happens.
What is rainfall?
These are the kind of pants clouds wear.
What are thunderpants?
A measure of how much water vapor is in the air.
What is humidity?
In order for water vapor to condense, this needs to happen to the molecules.
What is get colder? (or lose kinetic energy)
An air parcel stops rising when this happens.
What is reaches equillibrium?
Galetown's storms were the result of an increase in these three factors.
What are increased surface water, increased temperature, and increased wind?