Chapter 9
Puffy, white type cloud.
cumulus
Instrument used to measure WIND SPEED.
Anemometer
The layer of gasses that surround the earth.
Atmosphere
This is the region with high temperatures and humidity.
Tropical climate
This is a free-swimming ocean animals.
Nekton
The process of changing from a liquid to a gas
Evaporate
Instrument used to measure RELATIVE HUMIDITY.
Psychrometer
The ozone layer is located in the...
Stratosphere
These two conditions MUST be present or exist for a hurrican to develop.
Lots of warm water and lifting air
The dissolved salt in the ocean comes from this.
Rocks on the ocean floor and from incoming rivers
The process of changing from a gas to a liquid.
Condense
Instrument used to measure AIR PRESSURE.
Barometer
This causes (or creates/makes) wind?
The unequal heating of the earth's surface
This is the region with the greatest weather changes.
Temperate
This organism lives on the ocean floor.
Benthos
Thin, wispy type of cloud.
Cirrus
A strong wind storm with a funnel-shaped cloud.
Tornado
Animals breathe in (or take in) oxygen, BUT plants take in this.
Carbin dioxide
These are three (3) types of lightning.
Sheet, Ball, Heat, Spider, Blue jets, and Red sprites
This tiny organism lives near the ocean surface.
Plankton
Low, flat clouds that often brings rain.
Stratus
The type of thunderstorm we experience in Indiana.
Frontal
Precipitation forms when this happens.
Water droplets in clouds become so heavy they fall to the earth.
This is the region with cold temperatures and little precipitation.
Polar climate
This "powers" the water cycle.
The sun