Water Cycle
Scientific name for rain
What is precipitation?
Who tells the weather?
What is a Meteorologist?
The weather of a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
Causes surface currents
What is wind?
Earth is constantly
What is moving?
The process that changes water vapor into liquid water
What is Condensation?
Front that brings cool air
What is a cold front?
A desert has this type of climate
What is dry?
Convection currents move in this pattern
What is circular?
Directions that currents in the Southern Hemisphere move
What is counterclockwise?
A puddle dries up due to
What is evaporation?
Front that brings hot air
The amazon rainforest has this climate
What is a tropical climate?
Less dense materials are located where in water
What is the surface?
Directions that ocean currents in the Northern Hemisphere primarily travel
What is clockwise?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
TRUE OR FLASE: Weather Forecasts are absolute
What is false?
TRUE OR FALSE: The average temperature in the month of March in Maine is 65 degrees is an example of climate?
What is True?
TRUE or FALSE: Dense material in the ocean floats
What is False?
Circular swirls of ocean water
What is gyres?
Water that is found underground
What is ground water?
Warm moist air can create this natural disaster
What is a hurricane?
Antarctica has this climate
What is a polar climate?
Nutrients are brought up from the ocean floor due to
What is upwelling?
The great pacific garage patch traps how much garbage?
What is 700,000?