Clouds
Water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
Hurricanes can only form near this.
What is the equator?
Four "ingredients" needed to make weather.
What are earth, water, air, and sun.
The largest ocean on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Large collection of colonies of polyps.
What is the coral reef?
Clouds that form in layers or sheets.
What are Stratus clouds?
This is responsible for MOST of the winds we experience on earth.
What is the sun?
The earth's climate before the flood.
What is tropical?
Strong current moving water from the shore to the open sea.
What is the Rip Current?
Vehicle for deep-sea exploration.
What is a submersible?
Clouds that are wispy and curly.
What are Cirrus clouds?
When wind blows from the sea to the land.
What is a sea breeze?
The jet stream is most affected by the difference in temperature between these areas of the world.
What are the Equator and the Poles?
This is sometimes a result of different amounts of salt in the water.
What are ocean currents?
Organism that produces most of the oxygen in the ocean.
What is algae?
Big fluffy clouds.
Winds that blow straight up consistently.
What are Doldrums?
Two kinds of radar that are used to detect severe weather.
What are Doppler and phased array?
T/F: Tides are lower when the sun and moon line up.
What is False?
Very hot water coming up through the sea floor.
What is a deep-sea vent?
Clouds that are likely to produce rain.
What are Nimbus clouds?
A portable weather station placed the path of a tornado.
What is TOTO?
T/F: Relative humidity is the total amount of water vapor in the air.
What is False?
Two methods for desalinating ocean water.
What are distillation and reverse osmosis.
Animals that glow in the dark.
What are Bioluminescent?