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Flashcards by Kimberly Perez Aguilar, updated about 1 month ago
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Created by Kimberly Perez Aguilar
about 1 month ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Define: Altitude | Altitude is how high something or low it is |
| Define: Precipitation | Precipitation is water in liquid or solid form that falls from the atmosphere |
| Define: Weather | Weather is the atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes of a certain place at a certain time |
| Define: Density | Density is how tightly particles are packed together |
| Define: Absorb | Absorb means to take in light |
| Define: Reflect | throw back without absorbing |
| Transmit | to get through |
| Humidity | The amount of water vapor in the air |
| Evaporation | the process of turning from liquid into vapor |
| Condensation | a change from gas to liquid |
| conduction | the transfer of heat through direct contact |
| convection | transfer of thermal energy through air/fluid |
| radiation | energy transmitted in electromagnetic waves |
| Temperature | a measure of the average kinetic energy of molecules in a substance |
| Relative humidity | is the amount of water air is holding at a certain temperature compared to the amount of water it could hold at that temperature. |
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