Weather, Climate, and Water Cycle Key Concepts

What is Precipitation

• the amount of matter in a certain amount of space.

• any liquid or solid forms of water that fall to the ground from above, which can include hail, rain, sleet, or snow.

• The amount of water vapor in the air

• Process where liquids turn in gas vapor

What is Density

• cirrocumulus

• mass÷volume

• The amount of water vapor in the air

• the amount of matter in a certain  amount of space

Humidity

• The amount of water vapor in the air

• 
•  any liquid or solid forms of water that fall to the ground from above, which can include hail, rain, sleet, or snow

• altocumulus 

Temperature of the air always decreases as you move away from the Earth’s surface and higher in the atmosphere

• True

• False

When the temperature of the air increases the speed of molecules that makes up the air does not increase

• True

• False

Parcels of air that are less dense than surrounding air rise. Parcels of air that are more dense than the surrounding air sink

• False

• True

Condensation-

• the conversion of a vapor or gas  to a liquid due to molecules moving slower

• the conversion of a solid to a liquid due to molecules moving slower

• process by which heat is transferred by movement in heated liquid or air.

• process by which cold is transferred by movement in heated liquid or air.

process by which heat is transferred by movement in heated liquid or air.

• Convection

• Condonsasion

• Evaporation

• Condonsation

Convection currents primarily move vertically and account for cumulonimbus clouds and thunderstorms.

• True

• False

very small pieces of solids (dust, pollen, pollutants) that water vapor cling to in the formation of clouds.

• Hail

• Cloud Condensation Nuclei

• What you measure for density