Weather - Chapter 6

Air that moves horizontally

• Surface wave

• Wind

• Water Vapor

• Coriolis effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The angle at which sunlight strikes Earth’s surface

• Evaporation

• Humidity

• Insolation

• Wind

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Layer closest to Earth’s surface 

• Troposphere

• Atmosphere

• Lithosphere

• Ground water

Any form of water particles that fall from the atmosphere and reaches the ground 

• Water vapor

• Isobar

• Precipitation

• Humidity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Amount of water vapor in the air 

• Sea breeze

• Weather vane

• Water vapor

• Humidity

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Clouds formed in a blanketlike layer 

• Stratus cloud

• Cirrus cloud

• Cumulonimbus

• Fog

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Puffy clouds that appear to rise up from a flat bottom 

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

• Cumulus

• Fog

Clouds that form at very high altitudes out of ice crystals and have wispy, featherlike shapes 

• Convection cell

• Cirrus

• Stratus

• Nimbus

Wind that blows from the sea toward the land 

• Land breeze

• Anemometer

• Sea breeze

• Coriolis effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Blows from land toward the water

• Convection current

• Land breeze

• Wave

• Sea breeze