Weather Factors
What are four types of precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What percent of Earth is made up by ocean water?
About 96 percent
What are some factors that are used to describe weather? (list 4)
temperature, precipitation, air pressure, and wind
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere It also might make you feel sticky and damp.
What happens after when water droplets become heavy?
They fall to Earth's surface as rain, sleet, snow, or hail, depending on the temperature of the atmosphere.
What is water in a gas phase?
Water in a gas phase is called water vapor.
In the water cycle, when water vapor condenses, what forms?
Water droplets form
What is the water cycle generally driven by?
The Sun
What is the definition of weather?
weather is the atmospheric conditions, along with short term changes of a certain place and time
What happens if the dew point is reached, but the temperature is above freezing?
The dew is frozen as ice crystals (frost)
What is the temperature where all things freeze?
0 degrees Celsius
When due point is reached, the relative humidity is ____.
100%
As water moves through the __ and the __, water evaporates at Earths surface.
As water moves through the hydrosphere and atmosphere, water evaporates at Earth's surface.
What is the term hydrosphere used to show?
The hydrosphere is used to describe all the water on Earth such as glaciers, polar ice, lakes, rivers, water underground, and many more.
If there is fog, is the your visibility father or closer. Why?
Closer, because the fog is surrounding you making is harder to see into the atmosphere.
What direction does winds in the westerlies? How about the polar easterlies?
If dew point is reached, what will you be able to see right before your eyes?
You will see water condense and a foggy cloud will form.
What happens when water evaporates at Earth's surface?
Clouds form, precipitation falls, and water goes back to Earth's surface
What is the dew point of something?
What is air pressure?
Air pressure is the pressure that at column of air puts on the air blow it.
What might happen to your skin if u are in a humid area?
You will feel sticky and your sweat might not evaporate as fast as it usually does.
What is the amount of humidity measured in and by?
Measured in grams of water per cubic meter of air (g/m(3)
What happens when you exhale air that it warmer than the surrounding air?
The warmer air cools down.
How do plants release their water vapor?
They release their water vapor through transpiration
What is the dew point of something?
Air pressure is the pressure that at column of air puts on the air blow it.
What knowing the barometric pressure help with?
Knowing the barometric pressure help with predicting weather in distant places.