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Weather
weather
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Water Cycle | The constent movement of water through the land, air,oceans and living things |
| atmosphere | the mixture of gases that surround Earth |
| evaporation | change from a liquid to gas |
| condensation | change from a gas to liquid |
| precipitation | water that falls from from the clouds to Earths surface |
| transpiration | is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of the leaves |
| runoff | is the movement of water, from rain snowmelt, or other sources, that flow over the land surface to areas of lower elevation |
| accumulation | a buildup or gathering of something that occurs over the time |
| weather | what the atmosphere is like at a given place and time |
| sleet | precipitation that is halfway between rain and snow |
| hail | type of precipitation that is made up of small balls of ice |
| barometer | measures air pressure |
| anemometer | measures wind speed |
| hygrometer | measures the amount of water vapor in the air or humidity |
| climate | the long term weather patterns of a place |
| equator | the imaginary line that divides Earth into its Northern and Southern Hemisphere |
| typical | common |
| natural disaster | catastrophe caused by natural forces, not man made forces such as hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood. |
| latitude | geographic that specifies the . morth-south position on Earths surface |
| elevation | the distance above sea level |