ch. 3 Geography
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- The amount of water vapor in the air
- humidity
- The movement of air between different air pressures
- wind
- Weather over a long period of time
- climate
- Water vapor turns into water
- condensation
- Conditions outside at a given time
- weather
- An instrument that measures air pressure
- barometer
- Winds used by early sailors
- trade winds
- Water turns into a gas
- evaporation
- The most abundant gas in the atmosphere
- Nitrogen
- A cloud on the ground
- fog
- Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are called:
- precipitation
- Winds coming from the west
- westerlies
- Gas layer that surrounds the earth
- atmosphere
- Winds that bring us cold conditions
- Polar winds
- The trapping of heat in the atmosphere
- Green House Effect