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Weather Cycle

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  • What is groundwater?
    Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.
  • What is a runoff?
    Rainfall and surface water that drain or flow from the land into streams, rivers, lakes, or the ocean
  • What is crystallization?
    The formation of highly ordered, solid structures from particles in a solution.
  • What is percolation?
    When water soaks into the ground and moves downward through spaces between soil and rocks.
  • What associates with a low pressure system?
    Cloudy skies, low temperatures.
  • What is precipitation?
    Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds in the sky.
  • What is the layer of gas surrounding a planet that is held in place by gravity
    Atmosphere
  • An observed weather phenomenon involving some tropical cyclones after landfall.
    Brown Ocean Effect
  • What is change of a liquid to a vapor or gas?
    Evaporation
  • What associates with a high pressure system?
    Clear skies, high temperatures.
  • The measurement of air pressure in the atmosphere is called
    Barometric Pressure
  • What is the change from a gas state to a liquid state?
    Condensation
  • What is gravity?
    The force that causes objects with mass to attract one another.
  • What is transpiration?
    The process by which plants lose water (water vapor) through the stomata in their leaves
  • What is radiant energy?
    Energy from the Sun that reaches Earth as visible light, ultraviolet radiation, and infrared (heat) radiation/
  • What is the constant movement of water through the land, air, oceans, and living things?
    The Water Cycle
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