Vocabulary
Water Cycle
Weather
Weather Tools
Weather Fronts
100
A body of air with the same temperature and humidity
What is an air mass?
100
When water comes together to form puddles, lakes, rivers, etc
What is Accumulation?
100
The state of the air at a certain place and time
What is Weather?
100
Measures how much precipitation falls
What is a rain gauge?
100
The line separating two air masses
What is a front?
200
a wind blowing steadily toward the equator from an easterly direction
What is a trade wind?
200
When liquid water becomes water vapor in the air
What is Evaporation?
200
Scientists who study weather
What is a Meteorologist?
200
Measures the temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
This causes rainy days with a little rain falling over a long period of time
What is a warm front?
300
associated with severe weather and may be marked by strong wind, thunder, lightning and heavy precipitation
What are severe storms?
300
When water falls from the sky as rain, snow, hail, etc.
What is Precipitation?
300
What is a cold front?
300
Measures air pressure
What is a Barometer?
300
This causes storms with lots of precipitation falling in a short amount of time
What is a cold front
400
the ocean belt near the equator, characterized by long states of calm with no wind
What are the doldrums?
400
When water vapor in the air comes together
What is Condensation?
400
What is a stationary front?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an Anemometer?
400
This represents
What is a warm front?
500
the apparent acceleration of a moving body of air on or near the Earth as a result of the Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
Plants sweat the water out
What is Transpiration?
500
The weather of a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
500
Shows wind direction
What is a Weather vane?
500
Where air moves
What is from high to low pressure