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This is what happens to air pressure as you move higher in the atmosphere
What is decreases?
This is how water vapor enters Earth's atmosphere
What is when water evaporates?
This is how air becomes saturated
What is when the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation?
Pronounce this word
"Cumulus"
What is c u m u l u s?
What is they can produce showers and thunderstorms?
The temperature at which air reaches saturation is called
What is dew point?
Doldrums are
what are low pressure zones near the equator? Warm air rises to the top of the troposphere. They the air spread out towards the poles. The rising moist air produces clouds and heavy rain. During the hottest months, heavy evaporation from the warm ocean water in the region fuels tropical storms?
This is what the constant movement of air particles causes
What is air pressure?
The Coriolis effect
What is when Earth's rotation changes the direction of winds and other objects moving over Earth?
This is what causes a mountain breeze to form.
What is unequal heating and cooling of slopes and valleys?
Relative humidity is
What is the amount of water vapor in the air with the max amount of water vapor that can be present at that temp?
These are two ways that water can enter an ocean
What are run-offs and precipitation?
This is the direction the Coriolis Effect moves Global Winds
Northern H: winds curve to the right in the direction of motion.
Southern H: winds curve to the left.
Humidity is
What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
Polar easterlies
What is blow from E to W, movign from polar regions to the mid latitudes?
This is how the Coriolis Effect influences global winds
What is global winds curve as Earth turns beneath them?
The horse latitudes
What are high pressure zones located about 30'N and 30'S of the equator. Warm air travelng away from the equator cools and sinks in these regions. The weather tends to be clear and dry?
This is why air pressure decreases as you move higher in the atmosphere
What is there is less air to press down?
The westerlies
What are all set in motion as air flows from high pressure horse latitudes to the low pressure regions nearer the poles?
This is how air pressure is created
What is when billions of air particles bounce off of a surface, the force is spread over the area of that surface? Air pressure is the force air particles pushing on an area.
Finish this phrase "the greater the force,..."
This is the direction that wind always moves
What is from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure?
This is the process of how clouds form
What is as warm air rises in the atmosphere, it cools. When air cools to its dew point, water vapor condenses into tiny droplets or ice crystals. They are so light that they either float as clouds on rising air or fall very slowly?
This is how precipitation forms
What is when water vapor in the air condenses to form clouds...eventually, when the water drops combine and become heavy enough, the water falls as precipitation?
This is how cumulus clouds form
What is in the daytime during fair weather, when warm air rises vertically and then condenses as it cools?