Water in Atmosphere
The state of matter of water vapor.
What is gas?
Huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is air mass ?
Scientist who studies and predicts weather
What is a meteorologist ?
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere
What is a storm ?
Average year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind and clouds.
What is climate ?
Process of animals exhaling and released water vapor into the air.
What is respiration ?
Areas like Florida, have this type of air mass.
What is Maritime Tropical ?
Tool to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer ?
Fill in the blank:
__(1)__ is produced when __(2)__ heats the air near it to as much as 30,000oC such that the air expands explosively, creating the shockwave in the air.
What is:
(1) Thunder, (2) lightning ?
How much does temperature decrease for every 1 km increased in altitude?
What is 6.5oC ?
What is atmosphere ?
This front causes heavy rains, thunderstorms and tornadoes.
What is cold front ?
Two types of weather technology.
What are:
(1) Weather Balloons
(2) Automated Weather Stations
(3) Weather Satellites
(4) Computer Forecasts
A cyclone's wind that is greater than 119 km/h and causes storm surges.
What is a hurricane ?
Gases in the atmosphere absorb thermal energy radiated from Earth's surface.
What is greenhouse effect ?
rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail, and snow are all ...
What are types of precipitation?
Air masses are moved by these two things.
Lines on your weather map that connect places with same air pressure.
What are isobars ?
A cyclone that's brief, intense and destructive.
What is a tornado ?
Four factors that affect temperature.
What are latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents ?
The 4 parts of the Water Cycle in order.
What is:
(1) Evaporation/Transpiration/Respiration
(2) Condensation
(3) Precipitation
(4) Collection/Run-off
Has a swirling center of low air pressure and spins counterclockwise.
What is cyclone ?
Lines on a weather map that join areas with similar temperature.
What are isotherms ?
Can cause crop failure and wildfires.
What are Long-term droughts ?
Three factors that affect precipitation?
What are prevailing winds, mountain ranges, and seasonal winds ?