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Weather
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Water and air that is denser | cold |
| Water and air that is least dense | warm |
| Cold air and water ____ when meeting warm air and water | sink |
| Low, layered, grey clouds that bring precipitation | stratus |
| Wind that blows from the land to the sea at night | land breeze |
| Pressure associated with storms | low pressure |
| Pressure associated with nice weather | high pressure |
| Precipitation from cumulonimbus clouds that forms from convection currents | hail |
| When a sea breeze normally occurs | day |
| When a land breeze normally occurs | night |
| A cold air mass moves into an area of warm air, bringing storms followed by clear, cooler weather | cold front |
| After precipitation water flows from higher ground to a body of water | runoff |
| A warm air mass moves into an area of cold air and rises bringing rain followed by warm weather | warm front |
| Heat transfer by electromagnetic waves | radiation |
| A cold air mass and warm air mass meet and stall over an area, bringing rain for several days | stationary front |
| The most dangerous type of precipitation - rain that freezes on contact with frozen surface | freezing rain |
| Clouds that grow taller and bring hail and severe weather such as thunder storms and tornadoes | cumulonimbus |
| Precipitation that falls and sinks into the ground | groundwater |
| When the sun heats water turning it into a vapor and it rises | evaporation |
| The flow of hot and cold regions through a fluid | convection currents |
| When condensed water in clouds becomes heavy and falls to Earth | precipitation |
| Precipitation that starts as ice crystals and stays as ice crystals as it falls to the ground | snow |
| Cold air and water sink because it is more _____ than warm air and water | dense |
| When water vapor cools and clings to a surface becoming liquid | condensation |
| Ocean currents are driven by _____ and wind | temperature |
| Wind that blows from the sea toward the land during the day | sea breeze |
| Warm air and water _____ when they meet cold air and water | rise |
| The layer of air that surrounds the earth | atmosphere |
| The layer of atmosphere that has weather, the temperature decreases with altitude | troposphere |
| The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer | stratosphere |
| The layer of the atmosphere that is the coldest, where meteoroids burn up | mesosphere |
| The hottest layer of the atmosphere | thermosphere |
| Within the stratosphere, protects the earth from ultraviolet radiation from the sun | Ozone layer |
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