Water Cycle
This process of the water cycle forms clouds.
What is condensation?
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is weather?
The zone that exists between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer.
What is the Tropical Zone?
It's cold outside today.
What is weather?
The heart of our climate that pumps warm and cool water throughout the Earth.
What is the ocean?
This powers the water cycle.
What is the sun?
This tool measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
The United States (except for parts of Alaska) exists entirely in this zone.
What is the Temperate Zone?
The annual rainfall is about 200 inches
What is climate?
The Earth's rotation causing wind to curve is called the?
What is Coriolis Effect
rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of
What is precipitation?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This zone has the most amount of annual rainfall.
What is the Tropical Zone?
It snowed for the first time this year today!
What is weather?
The weather patterns in a region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Solid ice evaporates directly into a gas.
What is sublimation?
A scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This zone contains the saltiest ocean water.
What is the Polar/Frigid Zone?
We expect hurricanes between May and November.
What is climate?
Meteorologists predict the weather using this method.
What is analyzing weather patterns from past years and similar conditions?
Evaporation from plants and trees
What is transpiration?
Differences in air pressure would cause this.
What is wind?
The subsection of the Temperate Zone in which Florida lays.
What is the Subtropical Zone?
It's a dry, arid region.
What is climate?
California's unique weather events that dump excessive amounts of rainfall very quickly.
What are atmospheric rivers?