When water falls back to Earth as rain, snow, or sleet
What is precipitation?
The short-term air conditions in a specific area
What is weather?
Where the most hurricanes occur in the United States
What is Florida/Gulf of Mexico?
Gives energy, heat, and light
What is the sun?
Makes things travelling long distances around the Earth curve rather than go straight
What is the Coriolis Effect?
When water collects in bodies of water after it returns to the surface
What is run off?
How hot or cold the outside air is
What is temperature?
Warm fronts are represented by this color
What is red?
Where hurricanes spin counterclockwise
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
The process of water changing into gas vapor from being heated by the sun
What is evaporation?
When warm air rises and cool air rushes into the open space.
What is wind?
Large, powerful storm that starts over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
What is high to low pressure?
The imaginary line around the center of the Earth that splits it into two hemispheres
What is an the equator?
The process of water vapor cooling back into a liquid
What is condensation?
The pressure that causes humid, rainy skies
What is low pressure?
How tightly compact molecules are inside of something (causes warm air to rise)
What is density?
Huge way that the Coriolis Effect is important
What is for airplane routes?
When plants release vapor through their leaves
What is transpiration?
The long-term average of weather patterns in a region over extended periods
What is climate?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon/cyclone?
The three conditions that a hurricane needs to form
What is warm moist air, warm tropical oceans, and light winds?
Where the Earth spins the fastest