Water Cycle
Water changes from a liquid to a gas in this process
What is evaporation?
Humidity is the amount of this in the air.
What is water or moisture?
What is an air mass?
What is a jet stream?
What kind of energy is released with lightning.
What is static energy?
The water cycle depends on _______ to provide it energy
What is the sun?
When air rises, water vapour in the air will do this.
What is condense?
Kind of weather you have with a high pressure air mass.
What is cold and dry?
The usual wind in a place.
What is a prevailing wind?
What hurricanes are called in the Pacific Ocean.
What is "typhoon"?
What is condensation?
The amount of water vapour in the air compared to how much it can hold in total.
What is relative humidity?
Weather with a low pressure air mass.
What is cloudy?
The earth's rotation causes this - which causes wind to deflect to the side.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Tornadoes can travel this fast.
What is 400 km/hour?
The way in which water returns to the earth
What is precipitation?
This is used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
This causes rain and storms.
What is a weather front?
What can slow down a local wind.
Cyclones take place in this part of the world.
What are the tropics/ equator?
The process of water vapor from plants returning to the air
What is transpiration?
What is altitude, temperature and humidity?
What kind of energy is released when air masses collide?
What is thermal energy?
In what direction a northeasterly blows.
What is to the southwest?
Tornadoes form this shape (begins with letter "f").
What is a "funnel"?