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?
As you increase altitude, _______________ decreases.
What is air pressure?
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?
This is where you find weather.
What is troposphere?
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 often creates these.
What is clouds?
The earth's rotation causes this - which causes wind to deflect to the side.
What is the Coriolis effect?
________________ is caused by uneven heating of Earth and differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
The way in which water returns to the earth
What is precipitation?
This is used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is where two air masses meet.
What is a weather front?
What can slow down a local wind.
Air always moves this way.
What is from high to low pressure?
The process of water vapor from plants returning to the air
What is transpiration?
What is altitude, temperature and humidity?
This is where two cold air masses push warm air up?
What is an occluded front?
In what direction a northeasterly blows.
What is to the southwest?
Weather is day to day, but this isn't.
What is climate?