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Water
Causes of Weather
100
more air movement or hotter temperature
What increases the rate of evaporation?
100
This is called a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and a typhoon in Asia.
What is a hurricane?
100
where warm and cold air masses meet
What is a front?
100
3%
What is the amount of fresh water on Earth?
100
uneven heating of Earth's surface resulting in convection currents
What causes wind?
200
Condensation
What is when water vapor becomes a liquid?
200
Drought
What is when there is a shortage of precipitation?
200
cold front
What does a curve with down arrows represent?
200
97%
What is the amount of undrinkable water on Earth?
200
a circular flow of hot and cooler air which sinks and rises
What is a convection current?
300
Lakes, seas, oceans, rivers, streams
What is where water is stored on the Earth?
300
a powerful form of wind that forms over land and sucks up everything
What is a tornado?
300
L
What is a low pressure symbol?
300
not wasting water or any other resource
What is to conserve?
300
the angle of sunlight on the Earth's surface
What is a cause of uneven heating?
400
rain, snow, sleet, hail
What are the four types of precipitation?
400
a blizzard
What is snow storm with lots of wind?
400
a large body of air with the same temperature and moisture content
What is an air mass?
400
2%
What is the percentage of fresh water that is ice?
400
Black objects
What color absorbs more heat?
500
water from plants' leaves
What is transpiration?
500
the sound of air, suddenly heated, exploding
What is thunder?
500
people who study and forecast the weather
What are meterologists?
500
71%
What is the percentage of the Earth that is covered in water?
500
areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure
What is the way the wind moves?