Water Cycle
Water Cycle2
Weather
Vocabulary
Convection Currents
Miscellaneous
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Moisture that falls from the sky
What is precipatation?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Movement of water or air from areas of warm to cold
What is a convection current
100
Used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
This drives convection currents and all weather
What is the sun?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Reason warm air rises or cold air sinks
What is less dense or more dense
200
Used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Deep underground moving water.
What is an aquifer
300
Instrument that shows wind speed
What is an anenometer?
300
Convection currents move through this (has to be specific to one word)
What are fluids?
300
Name of two large air masses
What are the continental polar, continental tropical, maritime polar or maritime tropical
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
The temperature point at which water is saturated in the atmosphere
What is dew point?
400
Boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
400
Relative speed of molecules in warm and cold air
What is faster and slower
400
An example of conduction occurring in the weather cycle
What is a rock warming the air around it? What is the ocean warming the air above it? Etc
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
When salt water gets into the aquifer
What is salt water intrusion
500
Weather condition where warm air rises and allows for clouds and rain to form.
What is a low pressure area?
500
The relationship between convection currents and air pressure
What is warm air rising creates low pressure. Cold air sinking creates high pressure.
500
Reason the winds influence the tempature
What is they carry heat energy toward a location or away from it.
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