Winds that blow over long distances (all over the earth).
What are global winds?
100
Big puffy, white clouds that look like cotton.
What is cumulus?
100
rain, snow, sleet, etc. that falls from clouds
What is precipitation?
200
A transfer of heat through direct contact (touching).
What is conduction?
200
A type of breeze that blows from the land to the sea at night.
What is a land breeze?
200
Winds that start in the west and blow east.
What are prevailing westerlies?
200
Really high clouds that look like wisps of hair
What is cirrus?
200
The combination of water droplets with dirt/dust in the atmosphere to form a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
A transfer of heat by movement of a fluid (warm air rises, cold air sinks).
What is convection?
300
A type of breeze that begins at the sea and goes toward the land during the day.
What is a sea breeze?
300
Winds that start in the east by the poles and curve west.
What are the polar easterlies?
300
Clouds that look like flat sheets that are found in the middle of the sky.
What is stratus?
300
Water that seeps into the ground from runoff
What is infilitration?
400
A transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
400
Land and sea breezes that occur during certain seasons in Asia and Southeast Asia (bringing heavy rain and wind)
What are monsoons?
400
How winds get their name.
What is from where they start (originate)?
400
The difference between a stratus and altostratus cloud
What is an altostratus cloud is higher than a stratus cloud?
400
The piling up of water/snow onto the ground, lakes, and streams.
What is accumulation?
500
The over heating of the earth through trapping of the heat by gases in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
Compare and contrast sea breezes and land breezes.
What is both are local winds; sea breezes start at the sea and go towards the land during the day and land breezes start at the land and go toward the sea during night
500
This effect causes the winds to curve all over the earth.
What is Corollis Effect?
500
Nimbus clouds bring precipitation, name and describe 3 of the 5 types of precipitation.
What is rain- liquid water, freezing rain- frozen water, snow- ice crystals, sleet- frozen rain and snow, hail- ice balls?
500
The sweating of plants, water coming out of holes (stomata) in the leaves that goes up into the atmosphere.