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Atmosphere: Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air. This is called the __________. Earth’s _________ is made of gases that help plants and animals to live and grow.
Air Pressure: What causes hot air balloons to fly? Air has weight. It pushes down on things on Earth. This is called ___ _________.
Barometer: How does a weather man know when it’s going to rain? He measures the air pressure using a __________. When the __________ shows low air pressure, the weather man knows that bad weather is on its way.
Climate: _______ is the average weather for long periods of time and in a specific region. The ______ in a tropical rainforest is hot throughout the year. The ________ in the taiga is bitterly cold during winters and cool during summers.
Cumulonimbus Clouds: Sometimes ______ clouds move upward with rising air. As they rise, they become dark and big. They are now called __________ clouds. They are also called thunderclouds. These clouds can cause sudden and heavy rains.
Convection: ________ involves the cyclical movement of hot and cold materials. In Earth's asthenosphere, in the portion of the mantle that is right below the lithosphere, hot solid rock rises toward the surface as cooler rock sinks. This ____________ of fluid rock transfers energy from Earth's hot interior toward the cooler surface.
Evaporation: What happens to your bathing suit when you get out of the pool on a hot summer day? It dries. The heat from the sun _________ the water. The liquid water turns into a gas called water vapor. The water vapor is now in the air.
Funnel Cloud: Thunderstorms can make a _______-shaped column of clouds. This column stretches down from the sky but does not reach the ground. When _______ clouds touch the ground, they are called tornadoes.
Front: You are enjoying a sunny afternoon at the beach. Suddenly, you see thunderclouds forming in the sky. How did this happen? The clouds formed when a mass of cool air runs into a mass of warm air. The area where these air masses meet is called a front. The weather can change very quickly at _______.
Latitude: Animation Description: The equator, an imaginary line, lies around the center of the earth. It is half way between the north and south poles. The lines that run parallel to the north and south of the equator are called lines of ________. The climate in places around the equator is hot. The climate in places around highest _________ is cold.
Meteorology:, Air masses form over large areas that have similar weather. A front is the boundary along which two air masses meet or collide. Different types of fronts bring different characteristic weather conditions. Recording and studying weather patterns makes it possible for ____________ to forecast the weather.
Precipitation:Water vapor in air cools to form clouds. In clouds, small water drops come together to form bigger drops. When the drops become heavy, they fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. This is called __________.
Sleet: During a rain storm, the temperature decreases to around 0° centigrade. _____ forms as the rain passes through a cold layer of air and freezes into ice.
Thunderstorms: Sometimes hot and cold air meet in the atmosphere. The hot air rises above the cold air very quickly. Dark clouds form. Lightning flashes across the skies. These are followed by loud booms of thunder and rain. This is a ____________.
Tornado: When a mass of cold air meets a mass of warm air, the cold air pushes the warm air up at great speeds. Sometimes this creates a twisting column of air, called a ________. __________ travel very fast. They can destroy anything in their path. _________ are also called twisters.
Hurricanes: __________ are storms that begin over the oceans. They bring heavy rain and strong winds. These winds can have speeds over 100 miles per hour! ________ often destroy houses and pull out trees.
Hail: Sometimes, water droplets in clouds freeze. The frozen drops move up into the cloud, carried by strong winds. More ice begins to form on them. When they become too heavy, they fall as ____. Some _______stones can be as large as baseballs.
Tropical Depression: A hurricane usually starts as a low pressure system over warm _______ oceans. As the intensity increases, it develops into a ________ disturbance. As the storm develops sustained winds up to 38 mph, it is classified as a _________ ___________. Winds rotate in a counter-clockwise direction in the Northern hemisphere.
Tundra: The _______ region is the coldest biome of the world. This region is treeless. Some vegetation like lichens, mosses and shrubs grows there. The winters are long and severely cold and the summers are cool. The common animals seen here are the reindeer, polar bear, musk ox, and Arctic hare.
Typhoon: A ________is a severe tropical storm that originates in the Pacific Ocean, west of the International Dateline.
Moisture: Have you ever seen drops of water that collect on window panes? Where did this water come from? Water is always present in the air around us. This is called __________. On cold days, the warm temperatures inside your house squeeze _________ out of the air. It collects on window panes and other surfaces.
Global Warming: The Earth’s surface absorbs sunlight and heats up. Earth releases this heat in the form of infrared radiation. Gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases, trap this infrared heat energy. The trapped heat makes life possible on Earth. Human activities lead to an increase in the emission of greenhouse gases. As a result, more heat gets trapped resulting in the Earth’s climate gradually getting ______.
Stratus Clouds: _______ clouds are often gray clouds that cover the entire sky. ________ clouds are often associated with light rain or drizzle. ________ clouds are classified according to their altitude in the atmosphere.
Cirrocumulus Heat: a ________ cloud of a class characterized bythin, white patches, each of which iscomposed of very small granules or ripples:of high altitude, about 20,000–40,000 feet(6000–12,000 meters).
Nimbostratus Clouds: a low-to-middle étage stratiform cloud that has considerable vertical and horizontal extent and produces precipitation over a wide area.
Cirrus Clouds: You can predict the weather by looking at the clouds in the sky. Some clouds are formed high in the sky and look like feathers. They are called _____ clouds. _______ clouds are white and made up of ice crystals. If you see these clouds in the sky you should expect a change in the weather.
Cumulus Clouds: _______ clouds are white and puffy. They are made up of water droplets. They look like balls of cotton wool in the sky. ______ clouds are flat at the bottom and rounded at the top. These clouds can grow upward and develop into thunderstorm.
Snow: atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
Wind: In a low pressure system, the air rises rapidly and rotates fast in the atmosphere creating fast ____. In high pressure the air sinks slowly creating slow moving air currents. Differences in atmospheric pressure can also cause ____. Air flows from high pressure to low pressure. It speeds up as it moves, causing _____ to blow.
Earth, Oceans, & Weather System
- Sometimes, water droplets in clouds freeze. The frozen drops move up into the cloud, carried by strong winds. More ice begins to form on them. When they become too heavy, they fall as ____. Some _______stones can be as large as baseballs.
- atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
- In a low pressure system, the air rises rapidly and rotates fast in the atmosphere creating fast ____. In high pressure the air sinks slowly creating slow moving air currents. Differences in atmospheric pressure can also cause ____. Air flows from high pressure to low pressure. It speeds up as it moves, causing _____ to blow.
- You are enjoying a sunny afternoon at the beach. Suddenly, you see thunderclouds forming in the sky. How did this happen? The clouds formed when a mass of cool air runs into a mass of warm air. The area where these air masses meet is called a front. The weather can change very quickly at _______.
- During a rain storm, the temperature decreases to around 0° centigrade. _____ forms as the rain passes through a cold layer of air and freezes into ice.
- The _______ region is the coldest biome of the world. This region is treeless. Some vegetation like lichens, mosses and shrubs grows there. The winters are long and severely cold and the summers are cool. The common animals seen here are the reindeer, polar bear, musk ox, and Arctic hare.
- _______ is the average weather for long periods of time and in a specific region. The ______ in a tropical rainforest is hot throughout the year. The ________ in the taiga is bitterly cold during winters and cool during summers.
- When a mass of cold air meets a mass of warm air, the cold air pushes the warm air up at great speeds. Sometimes this creates a twisting column of air, called a ________. __________ travel very fast. They can destroy anything in their path. _________ are also called twisters.
- A ________is a severe tropical storm that originates in the Pacific Ocean, west of the International Dateline.
| - Animation Description: The equator, an imaginary line, lies around the center of the earth. It is half way between the north and south poles. The lines that run parallel to the north and south of the equator are called lines of ________. The climate in places around the equator is hot. The climate in places around highest _________ is cold.
- Have you ever seen drops of water that collect on window panes? Where did this water come from? Water is always present in the air around us. This is called __________. On cold days, the warm temperatures inside your house squeeze _________ out of the air. It collects on window panes and other surfaces.
- How does a weather man know when it’s going to rain? He measures the air pressure using a __________. When the __________ shows low air pressure, the weather man knows that bad weather is on its way.
- Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air. This is called the __________. Earth’s _________ is made of gases that help plants and animals to live and grow.
- ________ involves the cyclical movement of hot and cold materials. In Earth's asthenosphere, in the portion of the mantle that is right below the lithosphere, hot solid rock rises toward the surface as cooler rock sinks. This ____________ of fluid rock transfers energy from Earth's hot interior toward the cooler surface.
- __________ are storms that begin over the oceans. They bring heavy rain and strong winds. These winds can have speeds over 100 miles per hour! ________ often destroy houses and pull out trees.
- What causes hot air balloons to fly? Air has weight. It pushes down on things on Earth. This is called ___ _________.
- What happens to your bathing suit when you get out of the pool on a hot summer day? It dries. The heat from the sun _________ the water. The liquid water turns into a gas called water vapor. The water vapor is now in the air.
- Thunderstorms can make a _______-shaped column of clouds. This column stretches down from the sky but does not reach the ground. When _______ clouds touch the ground, they are called tornadoes.
| - , Air masses form over large areas that have similar weather. A front is the boundary along which two air masses meet or collide. Different types of fronts bring different characteristic weather conditions. Recording and studying weather patterns makes it possible for ____________ to forecast the weather.
- You can predict the weather by looking at the clouds in the sky. Some clouds are formed high in the sky and look like feathers. They are called _____ clouds. _______ clouds are white and made up of ice crystals. If you see these clouds in the sky you should expect a change in the weather.
- The Earth’s surface absorbs sunlight and heats up. Earth releases this heat in the form of infrared radiation. Gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, known as greenhouse gases, trap this infrared heat energy. The trapped heat makes life possible on Earth. Human activities lead to an increase in the emission of greenhouse gases. As a result, more heat gets trapped resulting in the Earth’s climate gradually getting ______.
- Water vapor in air cools to form clouds. In clouds, small water drops come together to form bigger drops. When the drops become heavy, they fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. This is called __________.
- _______ clouds are often gray clouds that cover the entire sky. ________ clouds are often associated with light rain or drizzle. ________ clouds are classified according to their altitude in the atmosphere.
- Sometimes hot and cold air meet in the atmosphere. The hot air rises above the cold air very quickly. Dark clouds form. Lightning flashes across the skies. These are followed by loud booms of thunder and rain. This is a ____________.
- Sometimes ______ clouds move upward with rising air. As they rise, they become dark and big. They are now called __________ clouds. They are also called thunderclouds. These clouds can cause sudden and heavy rains.
- a low-to-middle étage stratiform cloud that has considerable vertical and horizontal extent and produces precipitation over a wide area.
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Earth, Oceans, & Weather System
- HAIL
- SNOW
- WIND
- FRONT
- SLEET
- TUNDRA
- CLIMATE
- TORNADO
- TYPHOON
| - LATITUDE
- MOISTURE
- BAROMETER
- ATMOSPHERE
- CONVECTION
- HURRICANES
- AIRPRESSURE
- EVAPORATION
- FUNNELCLOUD
| - METEOROLOGY
- CIRRUSCLOUDS
- GLOBALWARMING
- PRECIPITATION
- STRATUSCLOUDS
- THUNDERSTORMS
- CUMULONIMBUSCLOUDS
- NIMBOSTRATUSCLOUDS
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