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What is the process by which plants give off water vapor into the air? Answer

100 points transpiration Back to Grid

What is the changing of a liquid to a gas? Answer

200 points evaporation Back to Grid

Water vapor is water in the form of a … Answer

300 points gas Back to Grid

Water vapor in the air comes mostly from … Answer

400 points the oceans Back to Grid

What is the result when a gas changes into a liquid? Answer

500 points condensation Back to Grid

What does capacity mean? Answer

100 points amount of material that something can hold Back to Grid

The actual amount of water in the air is known as… Answer

200 points Specific humidity Back to Grid

When something is saturated it is… Answer

300 points filled to capacity Back to Grid

The amount of water vapor that air can hold changes with the … Answer

400 points temperature Back to Grid

Warmer air can hold _______ water vapor than cold air. Answer

500 points more Back to Grid

Name and describe three types of clouds. Answer

100 points cirrus-light feathery cumulus-big and puffy stratus-form layers across the sky Back to Grid

The term for the temperature at which condensation takes place is… Answer

200 points dew point Back to Grid

What are three types of precipitation? Answer

300 points rain snow hail Back to Grid

What is the name of the instrument used to measure rainfall? Answer

400 points rain gauge Back to Grid

Precipitation may be a liquid or a ________ Answer

500 points solid Back to Grid

A large area of air that has the same temperature and amount of moisture… Answer

100 points air mass Back to Grid

Where do tropical and polar air masses form? Answer

200 points tropical form near the equator (warm regions) polar form near Canada (cold regions) Back to Grid

Molecules in a liquid are always… Answer

300 points moving Back to Grid

What changes when a front moves in? Answer

400 points the weather Back to Grid

Air masses that form over land are always… Answer

500 points dry Back to Grid

Name three characteristics of a tornado. Answer

100 points small violent funnel-shaped Back to Grid

Compare an air mass and a front. Answer

200 points An air mass stays over an area for a while or moves slowly; it is very large. A front is the forward edge of an air mass. Back to Grid

What causes lightning? Answer

300 points Giant storm clouds give off electricity. Back to Grid

High pressure regions usually have what two characteristics? Answer

400 points clear skies and cool temperatures Back to Grid

What is a line on a weather map that connects points of equal pressure? Answer

500 points isobar Back to Grid