Vocabulary
The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is Weather?
The average amount of energy of motion of each particle of a substance.
What is temperature?
Horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
What is wind?
High pressure areas usually have clear skies and low pressure areas usually bring....
What are clouds, wind, and precipitation?
Three ways that heat can be transferred are: radiation, convection and....
What is conduction?
Envelope of gasses that surrounds the planet.
What is the atmosphere?
Winds that blow over short distances.
What is local wind?
Movement of water between the atmosphere and Earth’s surface.
What is the water cycle?
The two characteristics that classify air masses.
What are temperature and humidity?
The way Earth’s rotation makes winds curve.
What is the coriolis effect?
Total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
Distance from the equator, measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What are examples of precipitation?
The two main forces that drive the water cycle.
What are the sun's heat and gravity?
The three major global wind belts are trade winds, prevailing westerlies and....
What is the polar easterlies?
Winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances.
What are global winds?
Transfer of thermal energy from one object to another because of a difference in temperature.
What is heat?
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface.
What is precipitation?
Energy from the sun that is absorbed by Earth’s surface heats....
What is land and water?
Computers, weather maps, weather balloons, and satellites.
What are tools used to predict the weather?
The boundary where the air masses meet.
What is a front?
The average conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in an area.
What is climate?
Scientists who study the causes of weather and TRY to predict it.
What is a meteorologist?
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, water vapor and many other gasses.
What are the gasses in the atmosphere?
Water changes its state (solid, liquid, gas) during the water cycle. During precipitation water is in the form of a liguid. During evaporation water is in the form of a gas. During condensation water is going from.....
What is a gas to a liquid?