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Atmosphere
Water
Water 2
Air pressure
Weather
100
Nitrogen
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
100
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
What is the water cycle?
100
runoff
What is water that returns to oceans via rivers and streams?
100
The weight of the atmosphere pressing on the Earth
What is air pressure?
100
A person who studies and predicts weather
What is a meteorologist?
200
Gas and water vapor
What is the atmosphere made of?
200
Provides the energy that allows the water cycle to happen
What is sunlight?
200
2 ways water returns to the air
What are evaporation and transpiration?
200
Creates clear and dry conditions
What is high air pressure (a high pressure system)?
200
The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place
What is weather?
300
Causes convection currents and winds
What is the uneven heating of land and water?
300
where most water is evaporated
What are oceans?
300
It never ends
What is the water cycle?
300
Associated with storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes
What is low air pressure (a low pressure system)?
300
weather in an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
400
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
What are the 5 main layers of the atmosphere?
400
forms in the atmosphere when water condenses
What is a cloud?
400
Porous layers of rock where rock collects
What is an aquifer?
400
Decreases with elevation
What is air pressure?
400
Cumulus, stratus, nimbus
What are types of clouds?
500
Troposhere
What is the layer where weather occurs?
500
groundwater
What is water that seeps into the ground?
500
The water cycle has a tremendous impact on it.
What is weather?
500
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
500
A large section of the troposphere that has the same weather
What is an air mass?