Water Cycle
What are clouds made of?
Condensed water particles
The tool used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
Why do winds not flow in a STRAIGHT line and move from west to east?
The earth rotates on its axis.
Pressure always flows from ____ to _____ pressure.
high to low
Which heats and cools faster: Land or Water?
Land
This is where most of the evaporation occurs on Earth.
What is ocean?
This tool measures the force it takes to move an object.
What is a spring scale?
The kind of weather we get when a warm air mass meets a cold air mass.
What is fair weather or happy weather?
What is the relationship between temperature and latitude?
The lower the latitude, the warmer the region becomes. The higher the latitude, the colder the area becomes. The relationship is inverse (opposite).
What area of Earth experiences the least amount of temperature variation or change during a year?
areas near water
Name 3 types of clouds
What is cumulous, stratus and cirrus
The tool used to measure the amount of water vapor is in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
Warm air rises at the ______ of Earth but sinks at its _______.
equator; poles
Moderate temperatures are characteristics of what climate zone?
temperate
During the day, the land heats up faster than the water, so a breeze will blow from the sea to the land, called a ____________ __________.
What is a sea breeze?
The main factor that determines what type of precipitation will make it to Earth's surface.
What is temperature?
This tool tells us the amount of energy matter contains.
What is a thermometer?
The place on Earth where the majority of air pressure is felt.
What is the Earth's surface?
The type of weather we will experience if we have 100% humidity.
What is rainy?
Which city, Bismark, North Dakota or Seattle, Washington would have a HIGHER difference between day and night temperatures?
Bismark
Name the steps in the water cycle AND the type of matter changes that occur in each.
What are evaporation (liquid to a gas) condensation (gas to a liquid) precipitation (liquid to a solid except with rain where it stays as a liquid)?
It is storming outside and with rain and thunder. This tool would have helped me know some lousy weather was on its way.
What is a barometer?
Describe the two reason why wind blows on our Earth. (two reasons for the Coriolis effect)
Unequal heating of the air particles (high pressure vs. low pressure) and the rotation of Earth on its axis.
Describe the difference between the weather and the climate of a place.
Weather is the atmosphere conditions for a short time (like your mood) whereas the climate is the atmosphere conditions over a LONG period of time (like your personality).
Compare the climate of a city near land vs. a city near water. EXPLAIN which city would have a larger temperature difference between day and night.
The city near land would have a larger temperature difference from day to night and the city near water would have less of a temperature difference from day to night.