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Air Pressure:
The force of air molecules pushing on an area.
What is Air Pressure?
This is any instrument that measures air pressure.
What is A Barometer?
The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place
What is Weather?
This is air that moves horizontally, parallel to the ground.
What is Wind?
These winds travel thousands of kilometers in steady patterns.
What are Global Winds?
The influence of Earth’s rotation on wind direction.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Wind Belts:
This is a low pressure zone near the equator.
What are The doldrums?
These are high pressure zones located about 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south of the equator.
What are The Horse Latitudes?
These winds blow east, moving from the horse latitudes toward the equator.
What are The Trade Winds?
These winds blow from the west, moving from the horse latitudes toward the poles.
What are The Westerlies?
These winds blow from the east, moving from the Polar Regions toward the mid-latitudes.
What are The Easterlies?
Temperature:
These winds flow in the upper troposphere from west to east for thousands of kilometers.
What is a Jet Stream?
These are winds that change direction with the seasons.
What are Monsoons?
This is the process by which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is Evaporation?
This is the process by which a gas, such as water vapor, changes into a liquid.
What is Condensation?
This is any type of liquid or solid that falls to the Earth’s surface.
What is Precipitation?
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Humidity:
This is the amount of water vapor in air.
What is Humidity?
This is a condition in which the rates of evaporation and condensation are equal.
What is Saturation?
This compares the amount of water vapor in air with a given amount of water vapor that can be present at
that temperature.
What is relative Humidity?
This is the temperature at which a given amount of water vapor will reach saturation.
What is the Dew Point?
The water cycle includes a type of evaporation called transpiration that occurs in this life form.
What are Plants?
Clouds and Precipitation:
1.) These clouds appear feathery or wispy, and their names mean “curl of hair”.
What are Cirrus Clouds?
2.) These clouds can grow to be very tall, and their name means “heap” or “pile”.
What are Cumulus Clouds?
3.) These clouds form in flat layers, and their name means “spread out”.
What are Stratus Clouds?
4.) This type of precipitation covers surfaces with a coating of ice.
What is Freezing rain?
5.) These small pellets of ice form when rain passes through a layer of cold air before hitting the ground.
What is Sleet?
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These are lumps or balls of ice that fall from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is Hail?
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This is rain that has become much more acidic than normal because of pollution.
What is Acid Rain?