Water Cycle Wonders
This process happens when liquid water gains energy from the sun and turns into a gas.
Evaporation
This term describes the temporary behavior of the atmosphere in a small area.
Weather
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere where all weather occurs.
Troposphere
This instrument is used to measure wind speed
Anemometer
This is the name for the process where heat is trapped in Earth’s atmosphere by specific gases
Greenhouse Effect
When water vapor cools and loses energy, it turns back into liquid droplets, forming these.
Clouds
Climate refers to the long-term behavior of the atmosphere over this many years.
100+
This layer contains the ozone layer, which protects us from UV rays.
Stratosphere
Differences in this "pressing" force create wind.
Air Pressure
This specific type of radiation from the Sun is able to pass through the atmosphere and reach Earth’s surface
Visible Light
This "plant-based" process involves water evaporating from the leaves of trees and crops.
Transpiration
This climate zone is located between 30° and 60° latitude and has "true seasons.
Temperate Zone
This middle layer is the coldest and is where most meteors burn up.
Mesosphere
This effect causes winds in the Northern Hemisphere to curve to the right.
Coriolis Effect
Greenhouse gases affect heat energy by absorbing and then doing this to infrared radiation.
Releasing it
Much of the water that returns to Earth flows downhill into streams and rivers as this.
Runoff
This major energy source keeps the water cycle going and warms the oceans.
The Sun
This layer is very hot and is where the Northern Lights appear.
Thermosphere
These "thousands of kilometers long" winds move weather in different directions.
Global Winds
If there were very few greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, most infrared radiation (heat) would do this.
escape easily into space
This process occurs when water soaks into the ground and becomes groundwater.
Infiltration
A person who studies the weather is known by this professional title.
Meteorologist
This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere where it fades into space.
Exosphere
Falling pressure on a barometer usually indicates that this kind of weather is coming.
Stormy Weather
This is the general relationship between Carbon Dioxide (CO_2) levels and Earth's temperature
when CO_2 increases, temperature generally increases