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Climate
Weather
Water Cycle
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100
The pattern of weather an area experiences over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
What the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time.
What is weather?
100
The process by which water continuously moves from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
100
The blanket of air that surrounds Earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
Used to determine an area's climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
200
The cause of the intensity of sunlight an area receives.
What is Earth's tilt on its axis?
200
The border where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
200
Water that falls from the air.
What is precipitation?
200
The two gases that make up the majority of Earth's atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
200
The reason a cold air mass sinks below a warm air mass.
What is cold air is denser?
300
One factor that affects an area's climate.
What is the distance from Earth's poles or the equator?
300
The resulting weather after a cold front moves through.
What is cooler and drier?
300
Water that is not absorbed by the Earth, but flows along the surface into a body of water.
What is runoff?
300
What happens to the majority of the Sun's energy that enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is absorbed by Earth's surface?
300
What an anemometer would show as a storm approaches.
What is an increase in wind speed.
400
A second factor that affects an area's climate.
What is the distance from a large body of water?
400
The resulting weather when a warm front moves through.
What is warmer and more humid?
400
Water that sinks below Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
400
A type of air mass that brings cold, dry weather.
What is Continental Polar?
400
The weight of Earth's atmosphere pressing down it.
What is air pressure?
500
The third factor that affects an area's climate.
What is the shape of local landforms?
500
How air pressure is affected just before a storm.
What is it lowers?
500
The source of energy that powers the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
500
The process of a gas changing to a liquid.
What is condensation?
500
The difference between weather and climate.
What is weather is what happens day to day and climate is over a long period of time?