Practice OC.8a Vocabulary

Match the following

• front

• The long-term sum of weather in an area.

• climate

• The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.

• air mass

• A large body of air with nearly uniform temperature, humidity, and therefore density throughout.

• weather

• The boundary between air masses of different densities.

Match the following

• sublimation

• Phase change from solid to gas.

• condensation

• Phase change from gas to solid.

• deposition

• Phase change from gas to liquid.

• evaporation

• Phase change from liquid to gas.

Match the following

• cyclone

• Huge rotating masses of high-pressure air.

• storm surge

• The most dangerous part of a tropical cyclone; dome of water lifted by the low-pressure center of the storm that moves onshore.

• anticyclone

• The energy absorbed or released during a phase change that happens without changing the temperature.

• latent heat

• Huge rotating masses of low-pressure air; storm system.

Match the following

• front

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• air mass

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• climate

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• weather

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Match the following

• evaporation

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• sublimation

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• condensation

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• deposition

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Match the following

• storm surge

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• latent heat

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• cyclone

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• anticyclone

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