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Wind
the forizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area with lower pressure.
Local winds
winds that blow over short distances.
Sea breeze
a local wind that blows from an ocean or a lake.
Land Breeze
the flow of air from a body of water.
Coriolis Effect
the way earths rotation makes winds curve.
Temperature
the average amount of energy of motion of each partical of a substance.
- the measure of how cold or hot something is.
Thermal Energy
the total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
Heat
the transfer of thermal energy froma hotter object to a cooler one.
Conduction
the direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that is touching.
Convection
the transfer of heat by the movement of fluid
Convection Currents
the upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air.
What are electromagnetic waves?
a form of energy that can move through the vacuum of space.
What is Radiation?
the direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
scattering
When dust particales and gases reflect light in all directions.
What is the greenhouse effect?
When gases hold heat in the air.
WATER CYCLE
the continual movement of water among earth's atmosphere, oceans and land surface through evaporation, condensation and precipitation
humidity
the amount of water vapor in a given volume of air
relative humidity
the % of water vapor in the air compared to the m,maximum amount of water vapor that air can contain at a particular temperature
condensation
the process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water
dew point
the temperature at which condensation begins
cirrus
wispy feathery clouds made mostly of ice crystals that form at high levels
cumulus
fluffy white clouds usually with flat bottoms that look like rounded piles of cotton
stratus
clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky