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Weather Review Game

The part of the Earth system that contains all of Earth's water.

Mass divided by Volume

Instrument that measures air pressure

Instrument that measures wind speed

What does a psychrometer measure?

Heat transferred by direct contact

Air has pressure because air has ________.

The climate gets warmer as you travel closer to the ____________.

The total energy of motion in the particles of a substance

Explain what happens to cool air in a convection current.

The ________ effect is when the global winds curve because of Earth’s rotation.

The polar easterlies travel from what direction?

List the four types of precipitation.

How does heat always transfer? From ____________ to ___________

Which law explains the following:

The changes in the rock cycle do not create or destroy matter.

The ________ are windless zones near the equator.

In which layer of the atmosphere are the convection currents?

What water cycle step usually happens after water evaporates?

What can exist in the air of the atmosphere as a solid, liquid and a gas?

Which climate zone do we live in?

What happens to the air pressure around you as you increase your altitude?

Where is the density of the atmosphere’s air the greatest?

Which climate zone is located in the area around the equator?

_____________ is how heat energy transfers from the sun to the Earth?

Which type of heat transfer would cause differences in air density?

What happens to air density if air pressure decreases?

a process by which water is given off through the leaves of plants as water vapor

the continuous process by which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back again

___________ is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.

__________ measures the average energy of the motion of particles in a substance. The instrument that measures this is a _________.

When the humidity reaches 100%, the air is _______________.

Narrow bands of high-speed winds that affect the weather.

Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons.

______ _______ are caused by unequal heating of Earth’s surface within a small area.

Compare windward and leeward.

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