1. Getting fresh water from sea water.
Desalination –
Getting fresh water from sea water.
Water Cycle --
The continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to liquid
Evaporation –
the slow changing of a liquid into a gas
Water Vapor –
water in the form of a gas
Condensation –
the changing of a gas into a liquid
any form of water particles that fall from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
Precipitation –

2. Groundwater –
precipitation that seeps into the ground and is stored in tiny holes, or pores in soil and rocks.
Aquifer –
an underground layer of rock or soil filled with water
Water Table –
the top of the water-filled
spaces in the ground
Spring –
a place where groundwater seeps out of the ground
Reservoir –
a storage area for
fresh water supplies
Well –
a hole dug below the water table that water seeps into
Water Cycle Jump

3. Atmosphere –
the blanket of gases that
surrounds Earth
Troposphere –
the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth
Insolation –
Incoming SOLar RadiaTION; the amount of the Sun’s energy that reaches Earth at a given time and place.

4. Air Pressure – Barometer – Isobar –
The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.
Barometer –
a device for measuring air pressure
Isobar –
a line on a weather map connecting places with equal air pressure

5. Wind – Sea Breeze – Land Breeze – Coriolis Effect – the curving of the
air that moves horizontally
Sea Breeze –
wind that blows from
the sea to land
Land Breeze –
wind that blows from
the land to sea
Coriolis Effect –
the curving of the
path of a moving
object caused by
Earth’s rotation

6. Convection – the flow of heat through a liquid or a gas, causing the hot parts to and cooler parts to
rise
sink.
Convection Cell –
a circular pattern of air rising, air sinking, and wind.
Air Mass –
a large region of the
atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout
Front –
a boundary between air masses with different temperatures
Warm Front –
Cold Front –
a front where
warm air
moves in
over a cold
air mass
a front where
cold air moves in
under a warm
air mass

7. wind that moves across the ground in a narrow path
Thunderstorm –
the most common severe storm, formed in cumulonimbus clouds
Tornado –
a violent, whirling
wind that moves across the
ground in a narrow path

8. a great rise of the sea along a shore caused by low air pressure.
Hurricane –
a very large, swirling storm with very low pressure at the center
Storm Surge –
a great rise of the sea along a shore caused by low air pressure.

9. Weather – Climate – Humidity – Relative Humidity – the amount of
what the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time.
Climate –
the average weather pattern
of a region
Humidity –
the amount of
water vapor in
the air
Relative Humidity –
a comparison between how much water vapor is in the air and how much the air could hold at a given temperature if it were full