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Water Cycle - movement of water between the atmosphere, land, oceans, and even living thing | |
Evaporation - Water turning into water vapor.. | |
Transpiration - Plants release water into the environment through their leaves. | |
Sublimation - When solid water turns directly into vapor. | |
Condensation - The change of water from a gas to a liquid. | |
Precipitation - Any form of water that falls to Earth. | |
Weather - the condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a certain time and place. | |
Humidity - Amount of water vapor in the air | |
Relative Humidity - Amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount of water vapor needed to reach saturation. | |
Air Pressure - The force of air molecules pushing on an area. | |
Wind - movement of air caused by differences in air pressure. | |
Air mass - a large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout | |
Front - A boundary of air that forms between 2 air masses. | |
Jet Stream - long distance winds that travel above global winds for thousands of kilometers. | |
Thunderstorm - an intense local storm that forms strong winds and heavy rain along with lightning, thunder, and hail. | |
Lightning - an electric discharge charged that happens between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area. | |
Thunder - the sound created by the rapid expansion of air along a lightning strike. | |
Hurricane - a tropical low pressure system with winds blowing at speed of 74 mi/h or more. | |
Storm Surge - When a hurricane moves into a coastal area, it pushes huge amounts of the ocean onto land. | |
Tornado - a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that is sometimes visible as a funnel-shaped cloud. | |
Sink Holes - holes in the ground that form when a cove collapses. a local wind that blows from the land to the sea during the night. | |
Wildfires - Uncontrolled fires burning in natural areas. | |
Muck fires - when dry grass and trees are ignited easily by a lightning strike. | |
Climate - describes the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time. | |
Global Winds - Wind systems that occur at or near Earth’s surface. | |
Westerlies - Westerlies are winds that blow 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitudes in both hemispheres. Wind blows from the west to the east. | |
Trade Winds - Winds that blow between 30 degrees latitude and the equator in both hemispheres. Winds blow from the East to the West. | |
Local winds - the movement of air over short distances. | |
Sea Breeze - a local wind that blows from the sea to the land during the day. | |
Land Breeze - a local wind that blows from the land to the sea during the night. |