The Water Cycle
Weather Patterns
Locations
Weather and Climate 4
Global Weather Patterns
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Falls from the clouds in any form
What is precipitation?
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What does the air temperature need to be in order for snow to fall? 
At or below 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius
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Line that separates the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheers
What is the Equator?
100
How does air temperature affect the weather?
The air temperature determines the type of precipitation.
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Warm winds blowing from East to West
What are Trade Winds?
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Happens when water molecules speed up because of heat from the sun
What is evaporation?
200
A body of air with a certain temperature and moisture level
What is an Air Mass?
200
Located in which climate zone....North Carolina...
What is the Temperate Zone?
200
What climate zone has cold winters and cool summers?
Polar Climate zone
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Forms when cold air masses meets warm air masses
What are Jet Streams?
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Another name for the hydrological cycle
What is the Water Cycle?
300
Warm air masses climbs on top of cold air mass to create?
What are cold fronts?
300
Climate zone close to the equator
What is the Tropical Zone?
300
Condition that changes very slowly
What is Climate?
300
Warm ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean
What is a Gulf Stream?
400
Where transpiration takes place
What is the leaves of plants?
400
The barometer starts "Falling", this means....
What is lousy/bad weather?
400
Ocean near the eastern coast
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Cool air coming in from the ocean and warm air flowing out from the land
What is sea breeze?
400
Wind travelling in the troposphere from West to East
What is a Jet Stream?
500
Forms when hot air rises and cool air sinks
What are convection currents?
500
What are the two wind condition used to measure wind?
What are Wind speed and Wind Direction?
500
Splits the earth into Time Zones
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Warm air that holds more moisture than cool air (more space for water vapor between air molecules)
What is humidity?
500
Causes the Pacific Ocean water gets cooler than usual.
What is La Nina?