The Water Cycle
Weather
Convection,conduction, and radiation
Hurricanes and tornados
air masses and air pressure
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Name the first three steps of the water cycle.
They are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
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What is weather?
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time, as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, and etc.
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What is conduction?
Conduction is the transfer of heat through direct contact
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Where is a hurricane formed?
Near the equator over warm waters
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Which way does a low pressure air mass spin in the northern hemisphere?
It spins counter-clockwise.
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What human activity uses up the most water in the United States?
The answer is industry.
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What are fronts?
Fronts are the boundary where unlike air masses meet, but do not mix.
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What is convection?
Convection is the transfer of heat through the movement of a liquid.
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How is a tornado formed?
Tornadoes form from supercell thunderstoms
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Which way does a low pressure air mass spin in the southern hemisphere?
It spins clockwise.
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What percentage of earths fresh water is found in ice and snow?
The answer is 68.7%.
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What are the four main air masses?
The four main air masses are maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental tropical, and continental polar.
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What is radiation?
radiation is the transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves
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How many tornadoes form in a year?
26 hurricanes
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Which way does a high pressure air mass spin in the northern hemisphere?
It spins clockwise.
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What percentage of Earths water is found in lakes
The answer is 0.09%.
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What are the four types of fronts?
The four types of fronts are the cold front, warm front, occluded front, and the stationary front.
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Name 2 examples of convection
2 examples are: boiling water and storms
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How many tornadoes occur in one year?
1200 tornadoes
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Which way does a high pressure air mass spin in the southern hemisphere?
It spins counter-clockwise.
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What is an aquifer? A cloud?
An aquifer is an underground layer of porus rock or permable rock, that contains groundwater. A cloud is water vapor that has condensed into million of tiny droplets or ice crystals.
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What causes storms?
Storms are caused by
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Name 3 examples of radiation
The sun, sound waves, and visible light
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Is a hurricane more powerful than a tornado?
No
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Can an air mass move?
Yes, by upper air currents and prevailing winds.