What is the process of matter changing state from liquid to gas?

What is the process of matter changing state from gas to liquid?

What term describes any form of water that falls from the atmosphere to the surface of Earth?

Who is a scientist that studies weather?

What instrument is used to measure the amount of rainfall?

What instrument is used to measure wind direction?

What instrument measures atmospheric pressure?

What instrument is used to measure temperature?

What is a collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air called?

What type of cloud is wispy and feathery, made of ice crystals, and forms at high levels?

What type of cloud is producing precipitation, such as rain or snow?

What type of cloud is puffy and white with a flat bottom that looks like floating cotton?

What type of cloud looks like a blanket covering the sky?

What is a cloud that has formed near the surface of the Earth called?

What is the leading edge of a warm air mass that brings long periods of light precipitation called?

What is the leading edge of a cold air mass that brings short periods of heavy precipitation called?

What term describes the pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time?

What term describes the state of the atmosphere at a certain place and time?

What is the temperature at which a liquid boils called?

What is the temperature at which a liquid changes into a solid called?

What instrument is used to measure wind speed?

What provides heat, light, and energy?

What is the thin layer of gases surrounding Earth called?

What is water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground called?

What is the part of the water cycle where water is in lakes, streams, ponds, rivers, puddles, and oceans called?

What happens when two air masses of different temperatures meet?

What is an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole called?

What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height called?

What is a dry air mass that forms over land called?

What is a warm air mass that forms in the tropics near the equator and has low air pressure called?

What type of air mass forms over the ocean and is wet?

Which air mass is characterized by forming north of 50° north latitude or south of 50° south latitude and has high air pressure?

What process is shown by letter B in the diagram?

This photograph shows a beach on a partly sunny day. Which of the following is an interaction between the sun and the ocean that results in clouds forming near the beach?

This diagram shows four phases of the water cycle. Which phase of the water cycle is affected most directly by heat from the sun?