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The Water Cycle
Misc.
Climate
Weather
Earth Systems
100
Occurs when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets.
What is condensation?
100
Formed in a cumulonimbus cloud and starts off as a funnel cloud before it touches down.
What is a tornado?
100
Winds that blow mainly from one direction.
What are prevailing winds?
100
The result of the earth's tilt as it orbits our Sun.
What are the seasons.
100
The earth's shape (sphere) causes the sun to shine more indirectly here and thus the climate is colder in these regions.
What are the polar regions?
200
This occurs when liquid water changes into water vapor, a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
EF0 through EF6.
What is the range of the enhanced fujita scale used measure the strength of a tornado.
200
It affects the amount of precipitation a region receives.
What are prevailing winds.
200
The atmospheric conditions of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
Stream or river-like movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean.
What are ocean currents?
300
The process by which plants and trees release water vapor into the air through their leaves.
What is transpiration.
300
The natural heating process of our planet, by which gases in the atmosphere trap thermal energy.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
The height of surface landforms above sea level.
What is elevation?
300
The process in which cold, nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean rises to the surface and replaces warm surface water.
What is upwelling?
300
Periodic (about every 7 years) change in the location of warm and cool surface waters in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the El Nino effect?
400
Water that flows across land and collects in rivers, streams and eventually returns to the ocean.
What is runoff?
400
The horizontal lines that measure the distance north or south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
400
When air rises and cools going up a mountain, dropping precipitation and then creates a dryer warmer climate on the far side of the mountain.
What is the rain shadow effect?
400
The continuous movement of water from sources into the air, onto land, into and over ground and back to the source.
What is the water cycle?
400
Carbon Deoxide, Water Vapor, Nitrous Oxide, and Methane?
What are green house gases?
500
Made up of condensed vapors.
What are clouds?
500
An area 23.5 degrees N to 23.5 degrees S latitude.
What is the Tropical Zone?
500
Geography, Latitude, Ocean Currents and Prevailing Winds
What is Climate?
500
Global wind belts found in both hemispheres between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude.
What are the westerlies?
500
A non-renewable energy source that forms in the earth's crust and releases carbon deoxide (greenhouse gas) when burned.
What are fossil fuels?