Weather/Water Cycle/Clouds Vocabulary

daily conditions of wind, temperature, clouds, humidity, and precipitation

• weather

• climate

• polar

• condensation

water vapor cools and turns into water droplets in this part of the water cycle

• precipitation

• evaporation

• condensation

• transpiration

a pressure area of warm air that often causes stormy weather

• high pressure

• warm pressure

• cold pressure

• low pressure

a warm water current in the Atlantic ocean that warms the air and land along the east coast

• gulf stream

• jet stream

• polar

• artic

a narrow band of air that moves around the earth with wind directions flowing from west to east

• jet stream

• gulf stream

• warm front

• high pressure

this climate region gets the least amount of direct sunlight, is the coldest, and is almost always below freezing

• tropical

• polar

• seasons

• midwest

average weather patterns and conditions over a long period of time

• climate

• weather

• warm front

• cold front

rain, sleet, snow, hail, or mixed forms of water that fall from the sky

• condensation

• evaporation

• precipitation

• transpiration

a pressure area that usually has FAIR weather

• high pressure

• low pressure

• cold front

• warm front

this explains the movement of water in the Earth's atmosphere as it evaporates, collects together to form clouds in condensation, and falls as precipitation in the form of liquid or ice

• weather

• climate

• water cycle

• La Nina