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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Heat and Temp
Wind
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
Most of the Earth's incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by?
What is ozone?
100
Water's freezing point on the Celsius scale.
What is zero degrees?
100
Caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The gradual increase in temperature of the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
200
Heat transferred between two substances that are in contact.
What is conduction?
200
Type of wind caused by unequal heating within a small area.
Local winds?
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Heat from the sun reaches you by.
What is Radiation?
300
Land breezes occur because.
Land cools more quickly than water?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Increase in temperature does this to a fluid's density.
What is Decrease?
400
Blow from a specific direction over long distances.
What are global winds?
500
The actual amount of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount the air can hold at a certain temperature.
What is relative humidity?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
The total amount of movement of particles in a substance.
What is a thermal energy?
500
The Coriolis effect is caused by this.
What is Earth's Rotation?