Weather Vs. Climate
Air Masses and Fronts
Water Cycle
Quizlet Part 2
Water Shed
100
The average year after year condition of temp.
What is climate.
100
What are the 2 ways air masses are classified?
What is wet/dry and warm/cold.
100
When water goes from a liquid to a gas.
What is Evaporation.
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is Precipitation.
100
What did the sponges act like?
What is Wetland.
200
Weather is the condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
What is weather.
200
What are the 4 types of air masses?
What is continental polar, continental tropical, maritime polar, maritime tropical.
200
➢ Also called “collection,” these stages go back and forth. ➢ Liquid or frozen water on the ground: rivers, lakes, glaciers, groundwater, puddles.
What is Run-off and storage.
200
A stratus cloud located on the ground.
What is Fog.
200
How come the animals, forest, cities, and ect. go away while you sprayed it with water?
What is it would be destroyed in real life/ to show what would happen in real life.
300
Example: Michigan/4:45/ 37°
What is Weather.
300
What are the 4 types of fronts?
What is cold/warm/stationary/occluded.
300
The _______ describes the continuous movement of water from: the ocean and other bodies of water to the atmosphere, precipitation back to the Earth’s surface, through runoff and groundwater to streams, transpiration from plants, and returning into the oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams.
What is Water Cycle.
300
The temperature at which condensation begins.
What is Dew.
300
Where would the toxic waste go it there were no wetlands?
What is the bay.
400
Example: 79° summer in 2014 and 2013.
What is climate.
400
Huge masses of air that move across land and oceans collide.
What is a Front.
400
Plants absorb water from the soil and move it through the plant to all parts of the plant. Excess water leaves the plant through openings in the leaves, which is called __________.
What is Transpiration.
400
The dividing line between two air masses with different characteristics.
What is Frontal Boundaries.
400
The toxic waste is made out of...
What is garbage waste, drinks, and ect.
500
When it is summer in Australia what is it in Michigan and why?
What is winter. Because the sun is hitting Australia more than Michigan.
500
A fast-moving cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass.
What is a Cold Front.
500
______ amounts of water are stored beneath the surface of the Earth as _____________. Rain soaks into the ground until it reaches layers of rock or clay that has tiny particles that are packed closely together. The water travels and fills the spaces between soil, rocks, and sand. The ground water stays within the ___________ within the ground until it seeps out as a spring, connects to rivers or lakes, or people use it by digging wells.
What is Large/Groundwater/Aquifers
500
A high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere.
What is Jet Stream.
500
Describe the path the rain took in the water shed?
What is straight down.