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Water Cycle
Air Masses
Vocabulary
Air Pressure
Fronts
100
When water is heated up by the sun.
What is evaporation.
100
The different air masses.
What is maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental polar, and continental tropical.
100
When water turns from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation.
100
Wind goes away from this area.
What is high pressure area.
100
These are the four different fronts.
What is a cold front, a warm front, a stationary front, and a occluded front.
200
The different stages of water in the water cycle.
What is liquid, gas, and solid.
200
Two air masses that might reach California.
What is maritime polar and maritime tropical.
200
Water that is stored underground in pockets of rock.
What is an aquifer.
200
Wind goes toward this area.
What is a low pressure system.
200
Warm less dense fast moving air runs into more dense cold air and slides over the top of it.
What is a warm front.
300
The process of water vapor turning into liquid.
What is condensation.
300
This air mass is cold and wet.
What is maritime polar.
300
The boundary where unlike masses meet but don't mix.
What is a front.
300
Mostly snow and rain is associated in this area.
What is a low pressure system.
300
A warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses and pushed upward.
What is an occluded front.
400
The main sources of water on earth.
What is the ocean, rivers, or reservoirs (have at least one of those to get full credit).
400
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is air mass.
400
The direct transfer of heat between two substances that are touching.
What is conduction.
400
Mostly sunny and no precipitation happens in this area.
What is a high pressure system.
400
This front brings dry and cold air.
What is a cold front.
500
When energy is lost or added in the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, melting, or freezing (have at least two of those to get full credit).
500
Weather happens in the maritime tropical.
What is precipitation and sunny/warm.
500
The direct transfer of of energy through space by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation.
500
I would expect rainy and windy weather.
What is an area of low pressure moving with a cold front (does not have to be exact answer just something close).
500
This front brings storms and strong winds.
What is a stationary front.