Vocab Final Review

Process where water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back.

Transfer of heat by direct contact of molecules

Air mass that forms over land

Imaginary line that runs through the middle of the Earth, around which it spins

Winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances

Theory of the Universe where the Earth is at the center.

Theory that states the Universe formed as the result of a tremendous explosion about 13.7 billion years ago

The average ,year-after- year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds in an area

The way Earth’s rotation makes winds and ocean currents appear to curve.

Movement of an object around another object

Direct transfer of energy through empty space

Spinning motion of a planet about its axis

Ball of ice and dust in space that has a long, narrow, elliptical orbit around the sun

Process where molecules on surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change into a gas

Theory that states the planets revolve around the Sun

Force that is the result of the weight of a column of air pressing down on an area

Winds that blow over short distances

Tropical storm that has winds of over 119 km per hour and feeds off of warm ocean water

Process by which a gas changes to a liquid

Process where heat is trapped in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases

Streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteroid in Earth’s atmosphere

Process where plants release water vapor through their leaves

Air mass that forms over the warm waters in the near the equator

Tide with the greatest difference between high and low tide that occurs when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment

Condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place

Flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land

Characteristic of materials such as sand and gravel that allow water to pass easily through them

Place where a cold air mass meets and goes under a warm air mass

Attractive force between two objects

Tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line unless acted on by a force

Movement of energy through a body of water

Rapidly whirling, funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth’s surface

Horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure

The total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample

Water flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground

Transfer of heat through the movement of a fluid

The amount of mass in a given volume

Objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets, usually between Mars and Jupiter

Blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and moon

Galaxy shaped like a flattened ball, containing only old stars

One of the different shapes of the moon as seen from Earth