Question | Answer |
Weather | The atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time |
Air pressure | The pressure that a column of air exerts on the air, or surface, below it |
Humidity | the amount of water vapor in the air |
Relative Humidity | The amount of water vapor present in the air compared to the maximum amount of water vapor the air could contain at that temperature |
Dew Point | The temperature at which air if fully saturated because of decreasing temperatures while holding the amount of moisture constant |
Precipitation | Is water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere |
Water cycle | The series of natural processes in which water continually moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere |
what are two types of variables | temperature and rainfall |
what is wind direction | the direction the wind is blowing |
what is relative humidity measured with | a psychrometer |
what determines the maximum amount of water vapor air can contain | temperature |
what is rain | precipitaion that reaches earths surface |
what is an important process in the water cycle | precipitation |
what are clouds | water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere |
what produces precipitation | clouds |
what does barometric pressure mean | air pressure |
how can humidity be measure | in grams of water per cubic meter of air |
warm air can contain more water vapor than cold air | true |
when air is saturated it contains more water vapor | true |
when temperature is high molecules have a ___________ | high kinetic energy |
clouds can have? | different shapes and be present at different altitudes |
a cloud that forms near earths surface is called | fog |
the troposphere contains all the __________ | clouds |
the stratosphere contains all the ____________ | weather balloons |
many of the elements on the periodic table are found where? | on earth/ ground |
when you have boiling water then it will eventually__________ | turn to water vapor |
liquid has _________________________________________________ | no definite shape or volume |