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This type of air is often brought from tropical zones.
What is warm and wet air?
This climate zone has cool winters and warm summers.
What is the temperate zone?
These clouds are super scary and bring severe weather; also name the types of precipitation it can produce.
This type of air accompanies coming from a place like the Polar zones.
The process Ms. H observed as a puddle disappeared from her driveway after several hours.
What is evaporation?
This is the type of weather that a high pressure system would bring.
What is sunny, clear skies?
The types of environment that depends on high volumes of rain and high humidity for plant/animal life to survive.
What is rainforest or swamp/wetland?
The following sentences are all observations except this one.
1. Jayce saw thin, wispy clouds high in the sky out at recess and said they are cirrus clouds.
2. Marina said that the hail falling now formed high up in cumulonimbus clouds.
3. Amelia said the clouds looked like dancing ponies in the sky.
4. William noted the stratus clouds might bring rain later.
What is statement #3?
the definition of humidity and the tool used to measure it.
What is the amount of water vapor in the air and hygrometer?
The final stage of the water cycle.
What is runoff and collection?
These tools measure wind speed and direction.
What are anemometer and wind vane?
The environment that has little/no growth and reproduction, very cold climate, covered with mostly snow and ice year-round, and little to no plant/animal diversity.
What is the tundra?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
True or false: Wind speed can tell us what kind of storms are heading our way.
True- some storms are categorized by the wind speeds they bring.
This type of precipitation can come if the air temperatures are below freezing. Be specific.
What is snow?
What is sleet- temperature near 32 except for one pocket close to the ground that the rain travels through before hitting the ground.
What is hail-produces high in the cumulonimbus clouds (below freezing) during severe weather events.
The correct and complete definition of the water cycle.
The continuous movement of water through the Earth's surface and atmosphere through the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and collection.
The reason gas needs to go to the upper atmosphere during the water cycle.
Ms. Harmsen and Ms. Wainwright are both visiting different places for spring break this year. They are both in the temperate zone, but the place Ms. H is visiting averages more rain than the place Ms. W is visiting. This might be a factor as to the reason why.
What is nearness to an ocean or large body of water?
The process in the water cycle that turns gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?