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Water Cycle
Measuring Weather
Elements of Weather
Global Patterns
Vocabulary
100
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
What are the three stages in the water cycle?
100
Thermometer
What is the way temperature is measured?
100
Balls or lumps of ice that falls from clouds
What is hail?
100
Subtropical and Polar jet stream
What are the two main jet streams in each hemisphere?
100
Wind
What is air that moves horizontally?
200
Rain, hail, snow, and sleet
What are the four main forms of precipitation?
200
Fahrenheit and celsius
What are the two ways temperature is measured on a thermometer?
200
Landmarks
What is the way you measure your visibility?
200
Temperature and pressure differences on Earth's surface
What are the reasons regional wind belts form?
200
Dew point
What is the temperature at which more condensation than evaporation occurs?
300
Hydrologic cycle
What is another name for the water cycle?
300
Rain gauge
What is a way to measure rain?
300
The greatest amount of water vapor the air could hold at a certain temperature
What is the absolute humidity of an area?
300
Cold front, warm front, and stationary front
What are the three main types of fronts?
300
Transpiration
What is the release of water vapor into the air by plants?
400
Energy and matter
What does the water cycle transport?
400
Anemometer
What is a way to measure wind speed?
400
Thunder
What occurs when a violent expansion of air is heated by lightning?
400
The currents help bring warmer or cooler water and air, which makes the weather colder or warmer.
How do ocean currents affect the temperatures on the coast?
400
Sublimation
What is when solid water changes directly to water vapor without becoming a liquid first?
500
3,000 years
How many years can a drop of water take in the ocean before moving to another part of the water cycle?
500
temperature, atmospheric pressure, and humidity
What are the three main things that a weather balloon measures?
500
Uppercase "H" for high pressure and uppercase "L" for low pressure.
What are the symbols on a weather map for high and low pressure?
500
The Bergeron Classification
What is the name of the classification that air masses go by?
500
Air mass
What is a large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout a period of time?