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Ocean
Weather
Moisture
Clouds
Weather/Climate
100
The percent of Earth's surface covered by water.
71%
100
The element that makes up most of the air.
Nitrogen
100
The term for any form of water that falls from a cloud.
Precipitation
100
Clouds that are high, white, and thin.
Cirrus
100
This forms when 2 air masses meet.
Front
200
The largest ocean basin.
Pacific
200
This is the source of all clouds and precipitation.
Water vapor
200
The term for a substance changing from a liquid to a gas.
Evaporation
200
Clouds that are a pile of rounded individual masses.
Cumulus
200
This is based on observations of weather that have been collected over many years.
Climate
300
This is the term for the total amount of solid material dissolved in water.
Salinity
300
The layer of the atmosphere where all important weather occurs.
Troposphere
300
The term for a substance changing from a gas to a liquid.
Condesation
300
Clouds that are sheets or layers that cover most of the sky.
Stratus
300
The Koppen classification system uses mean monthly and annual values of ______ and _______ to classify climate.
Temperature and precitpitation
400
The term for a sequence of organisms through which energy is transferred.
Food chain
400
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone.
Stratosphere
400
The term for the temperature to which a parcel of air would need to be cooled to reach saturation.
Dew point
400
This type of cloud produces thunderstorms.
Cumulonimbus
400
This type of air mass is wet and cold.
Maritime polar
500
This occurs at divergent plate boundaries where 2 lithospheric plates are moving apart.
Seafloor spreading
500
The term for the heating of Earth's surface and atmosphere from solar radiation being absorbed and emited.
Greenhouse effect
500
The general term for the amount of water vapor in the air.
Humidity
500
Clouds are classified by these 2 characteristics.
Form and height
500
An air mass is classified by these 2 characteristics.
Temperature and moisture