Water Cycle
What is the process called when water vapor turns into liquid water?
What is Condensation?
What is density?
What layer of the atmosphere contains the weather we experience?
What is the troposphere?
This causes wind.
What are differences in air pressure caused by unequal heating of the atmosphere?
What is temperature?
Name the process by which water moves from the surface of the Earth to the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
What is the term for the movement of ocean water caused by wind?
What are surface currents?
What is the mesosphere
This is a list of the different fronts.
What are a cold front, warm front, stationary front, and occluded front?
The higher up you go this happens to air pressure.
What is decreases?
Describe what happens during precipitation.
What is when water falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Define the term "salinity."
What is the measure of the amount of salt in water?
The layer that has the Ozone layer
A low pressure system causes this weather.
What are clouds and precipitation?
The Ozone layer is important for this reason.
What is defending the Earth from UV (ultraviolet radiation) rays?
What role do plants play in the water cycle?
What is transpiration?
The difference between El Nino and La Nina in northern US.
What is La Nina causes Northern US colder, wetter winters and El Nino causes Northern US warmer, drier winters?
The layer that particles escape into space
What is the Exosphere?
What is a sling psychrometer?
True or False. Temperature always decreases with altitude.
What is False?
Name the driving force of the water cycle.
What is the sun?
What is the thermohaline circulation?
What is the global current system driven by temperature and salinity differences?
The hottest layer of the atmosphere
This tool measures air pressure and the unit it measures in.
What is a barometer and milibars?
List the layers of the atmosphere in order
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere