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Water Cycle
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A casting down or falling headlong. (Rain)
What is Precipitation?
100
A transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing
What is Warm front?
100
H
What is High pressure?
100
A body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
What is Air Mass?
100
Is the force exerted on you by the weight of tiny particles of air.
What is Air pressure?
200
The result of being made more compact or dense.
What is Condensation?
200
A fast moving air mass overtakes a warm air mass.
What is Cold front?
200
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What is Low pressure?
200
A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface that obscures or restricts visibility
What is Fog?
200
Is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves.
What is Transpiration?
300
The seepage of water into soil or rock.
What is Infiltration?
300
This Front causes a lot of rain for a long time.
What is Stationary front?
300
Triangles up.
What is Cold front?
300
Tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapor condenses.
What is Dew?
300
A significant body of air flowing in the same general circulation.
What is Air stream?
400
An area that water runs off of.
What is Surface Runoff?
400
A composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
What is Occluded?
400
Half circles up.
What is Warm front?
400
An area that water runs off of.
What is Surface runoff?
400
The zone separating two air masses, of which the cooler, denser mass is advancing and replacing the warmer.
What is Frontal Boundaries?
500
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
What is Water shed?
500
A front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
What is Stationary Front?
500
Half circle and Triangle up then half circle up.
What is Occluded Front?
500
A strong, generally westerly winds concentrated in a relatively narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the earth.
What is Jet stream?
500
An instrument that measures wind speed.
What is Anemometer?