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Air Pressure
Wind Patterns
Clouds
Precipitation
Weather Potluck
100
The force of air molecules pushing on an area
What is air pressure?
100
Air movement from high pressure areas to low pressure areas
What is wind?
100
The rise of warm air molecules from bodies of water into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
100
A liquid form of precipitation that falls any time of year
What is rain?
100
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
An instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
200
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a given time and a given location
What is weather?
200
Clouds form when water vapor begins this process
What is condensation?
200
An instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
The curving of global winds is caused by this
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
What air pressure does as altitude increases
What is decrease?
300
High pressure at the poles and low pressure at the equator cause these
What are global winds?
300
The temperature at which air with a given amount of water vapor will reach saturation
What is the dew point?
300
Precipitation that freezes in the clouds and falls in solid form
What is snow?
300
The term used for plants releasing water into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
400
The level at which air pressure is greatest
What is sea level?
400
Winds blowing in the upper tropsphere from west to east at speeds up to 200 km per hour
What are jet streams?
400
A large, dark puffy cloud that can grow into the upper atmosphere causing thunderstorms
What is cumulonimbus?
400
Toxic precipitation that develops when water vapor condenses around pollutants in the air
What is acid rain?
400
Long lasting winds that blow cool, dry air over large areas from land to sea
What is a winter monsoon?
500
The cause of air movement in the atmosphere
What is difference in air pressure?
500
Global winds near the equator that blow from east to west
What are the trade winds?
500
When this type of cloud is found close to the ground we know it as fog.
What is stratus?
500
These air movements within clouds cause the formation of hail
What are updrafts?
500
High pressure zones in the calm regions around 30 degrees N, and 30 degrees S
What are the horse latitudes?