Vocabulary
Facts
Key Concepts
Water Cycle
100

To move from one object to another or one place to another.

What is Transfer

100

Theses are the main causes for more severe rainstorms.

What is surface water, wind, and temperature?

100

When liquid water becomes __________ it can evaporate  and become water vapor

What is warmer?

100

These are the three processes within the water cycle.

What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?

200

Water as a gas

What is water vapor?

200

Most water vapor in the air is found in this layer of the earths atmosphere.

What is the Troposphere?
200

The more an air parcel loses energy and __________, the more rainfall can happen

What is cools?

200

This process would cause a glass of water to be less full after sitting in the sun.

What is evaporation?

300
The layer of atmosphere closest to earths surface, where weather happens.

What is Troposphere?

300

The probability of flooding increases because of this.

What is an increase in precipitation?

300

Systems go through periods of this.

What is Stability and Change?

300

The name for rain, hail, and snow.

What is precipitation?

400

conditions such as rain, wind, and clouds are all examples of this.

What is weather?

400

This natural disaster occurred in California due to a weather patter known as an atmospheric river.

What is the Great Flood of 1862?

400
wind moves from areas of __________ to areas of ___________.

What is higher pressure and low pressure?

400

The process by which a gas changes into a liquid.

What is condensation?

500

The force on a surface caused by the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth.

What is Air Pressure?

500

If an area has a high amount of surface water and a warmer surrounding air temperature, this area will experience this.

What is higher amounts of rainfall?

500

Win can push an air parcel even higher in the troposphere, causing the parcel to cool and lose more energy, which will lead to ___________ rainfall

What is more?

500

Water regions with a higher albedo typically have a higher amount of this.

What is Evaporation?