Vocab
An amount of air that moves as a unit
What is an air parcel?
The force on a surface caused by the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth
What is air pressure?
The mixture of gases surrounding a planet
What is atmosphere?
When something becomes different over time
What is change?
Liquid water droplets suspended in the air
What is cloud?
The process by which a gas changes into a liquid
What is condensation?
The ability to make things move or change
What is energy?
The process in which liquid turns to gas
What is evaporation?
One thing that contributes to causing an event
What is a factor?
Scientific methods used to reconstruct and understand a mystery
What is forensics?
The measure of how much water vapor is in the air
What is humidity?
The scientific study of weather
What is meteorology?
Something we observe to be similar over and over again
What is a pattern?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds onto the ground
What is precipitation?
Where something comes from
When something stays mostly the same over time
A measure of how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
To move from one object to another
What is transfer?
The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth, where the weather happens
What is troposhere?
Water as a gas
What is water vapor?
Conditions such as rain, clouds, and wind at a particular time and place
What is weather?
The movement of air in a particular direction
What is wind?