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Vocabulary
Water Cycle
Weather
Wind
Fronts
100
What is evaporation?
The process in which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor.
100
What are the three things that clouds need to form?
Water vapor, dust particles, temperature at dew point.
100
Name 2 fronts.
Any of the following: Cold front, warm front, stationary front, and occluded front.
100
What is wind?
The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
100
What is a front?
The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix.
200
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air
200
What organisms break down chemical wastes in a treatment plant?
Bacteria
200
What causes storms?
Different types of fronts cause storms when they collide.
200
What are global winds?
Global winds is the tradewinds, Westerlies, and Polar Easterlies.
200
If warm, less dense, fast moving air runs into more dense cold air and slides over the top.
warm front
300
What does dew point mean?
The varying temperature at which condensation occurs.
300
What human activity uses the most water worldwide?
Agriculture
300
What type of weather is associated with a cold front?
clouds or precipitation (heavy)
300
What are winds caused by?
Differences in air pressure.
300
If cold, dense, fast moving air runs into warm less dense air and slides underneath it what type of front is it called?
cold front
400
What is the direct transfer of energy through space by electronic waves.
Radiation
400
Why is the sun and important part of the water cycle.
It gives energy to make the water evaporate.
400
What are the four types of air masses?
Maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental polar, continental tropical.
400
What happens when warm air rises during the night?
It creates an area of low pressure.
400
If a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses and gets pushed upwards what is this front called.
occluded front
500
What is the transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid called?
Convection
500
Name 2 components of a water cycle?
water, clouds, mountains, sun, aquifer and etc.
500
Name 3 types of clouds.
Any of the following: Cirrocumulus, Cirrus, Cirrostratus, Altocumulus, Altostratus, Cumulonimbus, Sratocumulus, Nimbostratus, Cumulus, Stratus
500
What are local winds?
Local winds are a small scale convective winds of local origin caused by temperature differences.
500
If cold warm air meet but can not move pass each other what is this front called.
stationary front