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Water Cycle
Earth's Systems
Weather equipment
Clouds
Winds
100
water cycle
What is the continuos movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere.?
100
atmosphere
What is the blanket of gases, water vapor and dust that surrounds the Earth?
100
thermometer
What measure the average energy of molcules? or What measures how warm something is?
100
cirrus
What clouds are high, wispy and made from ice crystals?
100
wind
What is moving air?
200
evaporation
What is a process in which a liquid changes to a gas?
200
hydrosphere
What contains all of Earth's water, in liquid form, as solid ice, and as water vapor in the air.?
200
humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
200
stratus
What clouds appear are a low grey blanket covering the sky?
200
jet stream
What are giant rivers of air found at a high altitude?
300
precipitation
What is any form of water that falls to Earth's surface, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
300
geosphere
What is the solid Earth, or land?
300
Rain guage
What measure the amount of precipitation?
300
cumulus
What clouds or low and look like small puffs of cotton?
300
Coriolis effect
What is due to the earth's rotation, moving air is deflected to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere?
400
condensation
What is the process in which a gas changes to a liquid?
400
biosphere
Where are all of the livings things found on Earth?
400
anemometer
What measures the speed of the wind?
400
cumulonimbus
What clouds produce thunderstorms with lightning?
400
trade winds
What are the steady winds caused by the coriolis effect?
500
transpiration
What is the process by which plants release water vapor into the air from their leaves?
500
cryosphere
What is the part of the earth covered with ice?
500
barometer
What measure the air pressure?
500
nimbostratus
What is a cloud that is low, grey and bring rains?
500
polar easterlies
What is air flowing away from the poles moving from the east to the west?