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Air Pressure
Winds and Breeze
Water in the Air
Clouds
Precipitation
100
Causes the constant motion of air molecules.
What is air pressure
100
Unequal heating and cooling of slopes and valleys causes this to form.
What is mountain breeze?
100
takes place when evaporation equals condensation.
What is saturation?
100
Form when air cools to its dew point.
What are clouds?
100
The device used to measure precipitation or water in snow.
What is a gauge?
200
Air pressure is lowest at high elevations because of this.
What is density?
200
Causes the polar easterlies to flow away from the polar regions.
What is high- and low-pressure?
200
The process by which a liquid becomes a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
Form when water droplets combine and become heavy enough to fall.
What is precipitation?
200
Precipitation that covers surfaces with a coating of ice.
What is freezing rain?
300
Air at sea level is denser than air at high altitudes causing these to be closer together.
What are air molecules?
300
Low pressure zones that are near the equator.
What are doldrums?
300
When water evaporates condensing to form clouds and falls back to Earth as precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
300
Moves water in the air between the land and the ocean.
What is wind?
300
Rain that freezes into ice pellets while falling through cold air.
What is sleet?
400
Air molecules move in this direction.
What is from high pressure to low pressure.
400
High-pressure zones located about 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south of the equator.
What are horse latitudes?
400
Compares the amount of water vapor in the air with what may be present at a certain temperature.
What is relative humidity?
400
The area where more evaporation takes place between ocean and land.
What is the ocean?
400
Forms when ice pellets move up and down in the clouds, growing larger.
What is hail?
500
This causes Global Winds to curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
Blow from the west, moving from the horse latitudes toward the poles.
What are westerlies?
500
The temperature at which water vapor in the air will reach saturation.
What is dew point?
500
How water vapor enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
500
The major factor in determining which type of precipitation falls to Earth's surface.
What is air temperature?