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Unit 11 Vocabulary
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Water Cycle | |
| Evaporation | the change of state from a liquid to a gas |
| Transpiration | |
| Sublimation | |
| Condensation | the change of state from a gas to a liquid |
| Precipitation | |
| Weather | |
| Humidity | the amount of water vapor in the air |
| Relative Humidity | |
| Dew Point | at constant pressure and water vapor content, the temperature at which the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation |
| Air Pressure | the measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface |
| Wind | |
| Visibility | |
| Air Mass | a large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar |
| Front | the boundary between air masses of different densities and usually different temperatures |
| Jet Stream | |
| Thunderstorm | |
| Lightning | |
| Thunder | |
| Hurricane | a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 119 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center |
| Storm Surge | |
| Tornado | |
| Sinkhole | |
| Wild Fire | |
| Muck Fire | |
| Climate | the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time |
| Latitude | |
| Topography | |
| Elevation | the height of an object above sea level |
| Surface Currents |