Weather You Like It or Not
This term describe what the atmosphere is like at one specific time and place.
What is weather?
This is the movement of fluids (like air or water) caused by differences in temperature and density.
What is convection?
This is the main energy source that causes water to evaporate into the atmosphere.
What is the Sun?
This is a large body of air with the same temperature and humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
Places near the equator have warmer climates because they receive more of this.
What is direct sunlight?
Scientists need many years of data to describe this long-term pattern of conditions in an area.
What is climate?
This effect causes winds and ocean currents to curve instead of moving straight.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
When water vapor cools and turns back into liquid to form clouds, this process happens.
What is condensation?
This is the boundary where two different air masses meet but do not mix.
What is a front?
A city in the mountains is cooler and gets more precipitation than a city at sea level because of this factor.
What is elevation?
"Moscow summers are hot and dry" is an example of this.
What is climate
In the ocean, this is what cold, dense water tends to do.
What is sink?
This is the process where plants release water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration?
This type of front can bring sudden storms or heavy rain.
What is a cold front?
Large, circular patterns of ocean water that are influenced by Earth’s rotation are called these.
What are gyres?
"North Little Rock received 4 inches of snow last January" is a description of this.
What is weather?
This effect can change the direction of large storm systems like hurricanes.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all examples of this part of the water cycle.
What is precipitation?
When warm and cold air masses meet and stay in the same place, they form this kind of front.
What is a stationary front?
Differences in ocean temperature and density are mainly caused by heat from this region of Earth.
What is the equator?
"Portland has dry summers and rainy winters" describes this.
What is climate?
Warm water does this because it is less dense than cold water.
This force pulls water back to Earth’s surface after it rises into the atmosphere.
What is gravity?
Air masses formed over tropical oceans typically have these two characteristics.
What are warm and humid?
When two air masses meet, the colder air mass will do this.
What is sink below the other?