Earth Systems & Processes

Usually brings fair, sunny weather

• High pressure

• Low pressure

• Altitude

• Thunderstorm

Electrical Storm

• Another name for Thunderstorm

• Low pressure

• High pressure

• Hurricane

Air mass

• A large mass of Air

• Thunderstorm

• Air pressure

• Pressure gradient

Eaporation

• When water turns into vapor

• When vapor turns into water

• When clouds cover up the sun

• Transpiration

Condensation

• When water turns into water vapor

• When water vapor turns into liquid water.

• When temperatures go below 60 degrees

• Precipitation

Precipitation

• Anything that falls from the sky.

  Water, snow, hail, etc.

• When a warm air mass

• Water in the form of gas

• Heat energy

Atmosphere

• The envelope of gases that surrounds Earth. Nitrogen (78%), Oxygen (21%), Argon (0.93%), trace gases and water vapor.

• A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air

• A measure of how hot (or cold) something is; specifically, a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object

• Climates

Climates

• Tropical -Dry -Mild -Continental - Very cold and dry - Polar - Hot and Humid/ wet -Desert - Warm and Humid - Humid and cold forest.Typical weather patterns over a period of time in a certain location

• The change from a gas to a liquid

• Water vapor

• Condensation

Low pressure

• A mass of rising warm air that usually brings wet, stormy weather.

• Thunderstorms

• Transpiration

• The outermost shell of the atmosphere, between the mesosphere and outer space, where temperatures increases steadily with altitude.

Exosphere

• The outer layer of the thermosphere, extending outward into space.

• The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.

• Scientists who study the causes of weather and tries to predict it.

• The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

  Meteorologist