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Earth's Water
Water's Affect on Weather
Air Masses
Measurements and prediction
Vocabulary
100
The fractional amount of Earth's surface water
What is 3/4?
100
The difference in air at the top of the mountain and the air at the base of the mountain.
What is lower air pressure at the top of the mountain?
100
Air moves toward the area of low pressure
What air does with an area of low pressure nearby?
100
Indicated by curving lines on a weather map
What is a front?
100
Water vapor becomes liquid water as it cools
What is condensation?
200
Contrast ocean water to fresh water
What is oceans are salty and fresh water is not?
200
The Sun's role in the water cycle
What is water evaporates in the Sun's warmth?
200
These form along a cold front when water vapor in a warm air mass cools and condenses.
What are clouds?
200
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
200
This word defines the process of changing a liquid into a gas
What is evaporation?
300
The reason the Baltic Sea has less salt than other seas
What is many rivers flow into the Baltic Sea?
300
The gases that surround Earth's surface
What is air or atmosphere?
300
Moist air rises and cools and water vapor condenses
What are clouds?
300
The amount of water in the air
What is humidity?
300
Any form of water that falls to Earth
What is precipitation?
400
The place of most fresh water
What are the polar ice caps?
400
Description of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and storage?
400
Clouds close to the ground that often bring rain or snow
What are stratus clouds?
400
One way greenhouse gases are beneficial
What is keep the Earth warm?
400
The tool for measuring humidity
What is hygrometer?
500
The percent of usable water
What is less than 1%?
500
Air moving from a place of high pressure to a place with low pressure
What is wind?
500
When a warm air mass runs into a cold air mass
What is warm front?
500
A scientist who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
500
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?