Vocabulary
Heat Transfer
Seasons
Water Cycle
Air
100
Weather that is dangerous or causes damage
What is severe weather?
100
Heat that transfers as waves through air and space
What is radiation?
100
One of the two days of the year where there is equal light and darkness
What is equinox?
100
The process by which water goes from a liquid state to a gas
What is evaporation?
100
How you name a wind
What is by the direction from which it is blowing?
200
The scientific study of Earth's weather
What is meteorology?
200
Heat that transfers through contact
What is conduction?
200
The name of the longest day of the year
What is the Summer Solstice?
200
The process by which water goes from a gas state to a liquid state
What is condensation?
200
The temperature of high pressure air
What is cool?
300
The gases that surround a planet or star
What is the atmosphere?
300
Energy that radiates from the sun
What is solar energy?
300
The imaginary line something turns around
What is axis?
300
Water in its gaseous state
What is water vapor
300
The change in the amount of air as you travel upwards through the atmopshere
What is it gets thinner?
400
The usual weather conditions experienced over time
What is climate?
400
How loosely or tightly packed molecules are
What is density?
400
The reason we have seasons
The earth's axis is tilted.
400
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
400
Low pressure air has than high pressure air
What is lower density? or What is lower temperatures?
500
Conditions outside on a particular day or time
What is weather?
500
Heat transfer due to warm air rising and cool air sinking
What is convection?
500
The reason we have seasons
The earth's axis is tilted. When the pole is tilted toward the sun it is summer. The other pole will be experiencing winter.
500
The four steps of the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection?
500
The pressures that wind moves from and to
What is high pressure to low pressure areas