1. Vocab Final Review

2. Process where water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back.

3. Transfer of heat by direct contact of molecules

4. Air mass that forms over land

5. Imaginary line that runs through the middle of the Earth, around which it spins

6. Winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances

7. Theory of the Universe where the Earth is at the center.

8. Theory that states the Universe formed as the result of a tremendous explosion about billion years ago

9. The average ,year-after- year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds in an area

10. The way Earth’s rotation makes winds and ocean currents appear to curve.

11. Movement of an object around another object

12. Direct transfer of energy through empty space

13. Spinning motion of a planet about its axis

14. Ball of ice and dust in space that has a long, narrow, elliptical orbit around the sun

15. Process where molecules on surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change into a gas

16. Theory that states the planets revolve around the Sun

17. Force that is the result of the weight of a column of air pressing down on an area

18. Winds that blow over short distances

19. Tropical storm that has winds of over 119 km per hour and feeds off of warm ocean water

20. Process by which a gas changes to a liquid

21. Process where heat is trapped in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases

22. Streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteroid in Earth’s atmosphere

23. Process where plants release water vapor through their leaves

24. Air mass that forms over the warm waters in the near the equator

25. Tide with the greatest difference between high and low tide that occurs when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment

26. Condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place

27. Flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land

28. Characteristic of materials such as sand and gravel that allow water to pass easily through them

29. Place where a cold air mass meets and goes under a warm air mass

30. Attractive force between two objects

31. Tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line unless acted on by a force

32. Movement of energy through a body of water

33. Rapidly whirling, funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth’s surface

34. Horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure

35. The total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample

36. Water flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground

37. Transfer of heat through the movement of a fluid

38. The amount of mass in a given volume

39. Objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets, usually between Mars and Jupiter

40. Blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and moon

41. Galaxy shaped like a flattened ball, containing only old stars

42. One of the different shapes of the moon as seen from Earth