Vocab 1
The height above sea level is:
What is Elevation?
Dew forms during which part of the water cycle?
What is condensation?
The average of weather conditions over a long period of time:
What is climate?
What is the term that describes the movement of materials away from a place?
What is Erosion?
All waters of earth:
What is hydrosphere?
The mixture of water vapor and other gases, as well as particles of matter that surround earth's surfaces:
What is atmosphere?
What does a barometer do?
What is measures air pressure?
What that falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail:
A forecaster studying the climate of an area would find what most helpful?
Repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms:
The solid, rocky layer of Earth
What is Lithosphere?
Sometimes, water vapor on a surface may freeze without first becoming liquid water. What forms when this change occurs?
What is frost?
Movement of air that redistributes heat on Earth:
What is circulation?
Describe a cirrus cloud:
What is high, thin, and wispy?
The part of Earth in which living things are found:
What is biosphere?
The process in which a gas turns into a liquid:
What is condensation?
The hydrosphere covers about what percentage of Earth's surface?
75 percent
The state of the atmosphere:
What is weather?
Describe a Altocumulus cloud:
small, puffy, and mid level
Frozen raindrops:
What is sleet?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
What carries warm water toward the poles?
What is currents?
Frozen precipitation that forms in layers:
What is hail?
Describe a Stratus cloud:
What is dark, long, and low
A measure of how far a place is from the equator:
What is Latitude?