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WAT/WEA/CLO
Water Cycle, Weather, & Clouds
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 3 forms that water on the Earth is found as? | Solid, Liquid, & Gas |
| What are the 3 areas where water flows from? | Rivers, Streams, & Oceans |
| What are the 3 developmental ways that water is processed in the Earth? | Evaporation, Condensation, & Precipitation |
| What plays a major role in the development of the water cycle? | The Sun’s Energy |
| What is all the water that is on Earth known as? | The hydrosphere |
| What is the largest hydrosphere that is located on Earth? | The Pacific Ocean |
| What are known as storage water areas on Earth? | Reservoirs |
| What are the two types of waters that are located in the Earth? | Fresh water & Salt water |
| In what type of water areas are low salt concentrations found? | Fresh water areas |
| In what type of water areas are high salt concentrations found? | Saltwater areas |
| In what type of water are high salt concentrations found? | Oceans |
| What is the temperature of the “Equator” ocean on the Earth? | 30 Degree Celsius |
| What is the temperature of the North and South Pole oceans on the Earth? | -2 Degree Celsius |
| What are the names of the 3 areas where the warm ocean areas flow on the Earth? | Gulf Stream, Caribbean Sea, & North Atlantic Ocean |
| What currents rotate cold waters with warm waters in the ocean? | The California Currents |
| What is known as the atmosphere in a particular climate? | Weather |
| What is the temperature weather patterns in that particular area? | Climate |
| What are 6 examples that effect weather conditions? | Temperature, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Air Pressure, Moisture, & Amount of Rain or Snow |
| What is weather scientist called that predication future weather forecast? | Meteorologist |
| What is the name for a tropical cyclone that forms specifically in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans regions? | Hurricane |
| What are mobile, destructive vortex of rotating winds appearing in a funnel-shaped cloud that destroying everything around them? | Tornados |
| What is a weather condition which is marked by the absence of water in the region? | Drought |
| What do drought effect in the world? | Agriculture, Ecosystems, & Communities |
| Gravity pulls or pushing air pressure forces in the Earth, what is this called? | Barometric pressure |
| What have been known to effect weather & its patterns in an area? | Air temperatures |
| What is the cause of differences in air pressure? | Wind movement |
| What affects in what direction the weather will flow in an area? | Wind Speed and direction |
| What are the 2 objects that create rain or snow in the clouds? | Ice crystals and water droplets |
| What are the 4 types of precipitation in the Earth’s weather? | Rain, Sleet, Hail, & Snow |
| What type of precipitation is water falling in drops condensed from vapor in the atmosphere? | Rain |
| What type of precipitation is rain that freezes or partly freezes as it falls from the sky? | Sleet |
| What type of precipitation is precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor at 32°F (0°C)? | Snow |
| What are short, detached, hair-like clouds found at high altitudes? | Cirrus clouds |
| What type of clouds are associated with thunderstorms and heavy precipitation? | Cumulonimbus clouds |
| What are clouds that are middle altitude that are in layers or patches? | Altocumulus clouds |
| What type of clouds are flat and hazy that are low altitudes varying from dark to white colors? | Stratus clouds |
| What are clouds that are known to touch the ground? | Fog clouds |
| What force pull water, sleet, hail, or snow to the ground? | Gravity |
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