Water Cycle Vocabulary
The movement of water through the land, oceans, and living things.
What is the water cycle?
The steps of the Water Cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Things that clear up weather and creates it.
What are high and low pressure systems?
The pressure in the hurricane eye.
What is low pressure?
Frozen rain that falls in the winter.
What is snow?
The condition of the Earth at a certain time and place.
What is the weather?
Types of fronts and their functions.
What is a warm front? It works when warm air masses climbs over the cold air masses.
What is a cold front? It works when cold air masses pushes warm air masses upwards.
What is a stationary front? It works when warm air masses and cold air masses stay in one place.
The formation of global winds and their movements.
What is high and low pressure areas and what is the Coriolis effect?
The name of the tornado scale.
What is the Fujita Scale?
A frozen type of rain that does severe damage.
What is hail?
The measurement of how hot or cold something is.
What is the temperature?
Cloud formation.
What happens when rate of evaporation is equal to the rate of condensation to the air? What is the condensation effects after the occurrence?
Winds that thunderstorms follow and change temperatures.
What are jet streams?
Name of the hurricane scale.
What is the Saffir Simpson?
Frozen rain over grass.
What is sleet?
Water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Cloud affection for climate.
Why does low altitude clouds reflects solar energy? Why does high altitude clouds absorb solar energy?
The formation of Ocean currents.
How is it effected by global winds? How come it changes land temperatures by moving energy around?
The most dangerous part of the hurricane.
What is a Storm Surge?
The most common type of precipitation.
What is rain?
The difference of saturated humidity.
What is the Relative Humidity?
How air cools to dew point.
What is frontal lifting? Why does warm air rises over cold air?
What is Orographic lifting? Why does air gets blocked by obstacles and is forced to be pushed upwards?
How pressures affect us.
How come high pressure systems create weather and low pressure systems clear out weather?
Where the strongest winds occur in the hurricane.
What is the eye wall?
How clouds create precipitation.
What is heavy amounts of precipitation, making it unable to hold all of it?