Water Cycle
This is the first step in the water cycle.
Trick question! The water cycle has no beginning and no end.
The prefix for mid altitude clouds
Alto
*altostratus altocumulus
Does hot or cold air have higher air pressure?
Cold air
What causes wind?
The UNEVEN heating & cooling of Earth’s surface causes differences in AIR PRESSURE. The greater the pressure DIFFERENCE, the FASTER the air moves, and the STRONGER the WIND BLOWS
Describe an Air Mass.
A large body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout.
Describe transpiration.
Describe evaporation.
When water evaporates from plants.
When liquid water changes to a gas.
This is the type of weather to expect when cumulus clouds are out.
Fair weather
The density of cold air can be compared to the density of warm air this way
Cold Air SINKS because it is MORE DENSE & Warm Air RISES because it is LESS DENSE
This global wind is responsible for weather in the United States
Prevailing Westerlies
Where do air masses form?
*Daily Double*
They form over either large land or water masses.
This is how the Water Cycle can be described...
*Daily Double*
The path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different states (solids, liquids or gases)?
These are the two factors used to name a cloud
Shape & altitude
This is the direction that air moves.
From High air pressure to Low air pressure
The Coriolis Effect impacts weather this way
It gives hurricanes their circular motion
What type of temperature and humidity would you expect from a maritime polar air mass?
Very cold and with high humidity/rainy
What drives the water cycle?
The energy from the sun.
Cirrus clouds can be described this way.
Thin, wispy clouds that occur at high altitude.
Which type of heat transfer requires physical contact between 2 solids?
Conduction
These two factors influence Global Winds
*Daily Double*
The spinning of Earth on its axis (Coriolis Effect) and the differences in temperature between the equator and the north and south poles resulting in different air pressures - creating large convection currents
What 2 factors influence how an air mass is named?
According to temperature and amount of moisture (location)
Define "humidity"
The amount of moisture (water vapor) in the air.
How are clouds formed?
Water vapor in the air condenses around dust particles.
Why does hot air rise?
Warm air molecules are moving quickly which make them further apart and less dense. Less density makes the air rise!
Which way to Sea Breezes blow?
Why do they blow this way?
Sea Breezes blow from the SEA towards the LAND *Due to warm air above land rising & cool air above water sinking
Continental Tropical has this symbol and is associated with this type of weather
cT
Warm weather and very dry - found in American southwest desert