Weather patterns
What is air pressure
force on a surface caused by the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on earth.
What are Easterlies?
Winds that blow from East to West
What is a cloud
Liquid water droplets suspended in the air
What is climate
What is weather over a long period of time
What is evaporation
The process by which the sun heats up liquid and changes into gas
What is factor
Variables in a science experiment
what is humidity
A measure of how much water vapor is in there
what is meteorology
This scientific study of weather
what is condensation
The process by which a gas cools down and changes into a liquid
What is a warm front
A warm air mass that rises over cold air mass bringing warmer temperatures
what is a cold front
A cold air mass that pushes underneath a warm air mass and pushes it straight up
What is precipitation
Rain snow sleet or hail that falls from clouds onto the ground
What is hail
When rain falls and is updrafted(taken back up) back into the clouds in temperature that is below 0 degrees then falls again
What are westerlies
Winds that blow from west to east
What is temperature
A measure of how cold or hot something is
What is a Front
A boundary between between 2 air masses
What is a Troposphere
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the earth the weather happens
Water vapor
Water as a gas
What is the weather
Condition such as rain clouds and wind at a particular time and place
What are the variables of weather?
What are air temperature, air pressure, wind speed and direction, humidity, cloud cover, and precipitation