Vocabulary
Air and Weather
The Water Cycle
Tracking the Weather
Climate
100
A collection of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that hangs in the air.
What is a cloud?
100
The tool used to measure temperature?
What is a thermometer?
100
The movement of water between Earth's surface and the air.
What is the water cycle?
100
Two examples of severe weather signs.
What is thunder, lightning, tall swirling mass of air? (any two of these)
100
Ocean currents sometimes move water from the equator to this place.
What is the poles?
200
The average weather pattern of a region over time.
What is climate?
200
The four kinds of precipitation.
What are snow, rain, sleet, hail?
200
The three processes that happen as water moves through the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
200
Satellites in orbit around Earth and computers that help scientist analyze data.
What is weather forecasting technology?
200
Some ocean currents move this kind of water from the poles toward the equator.
What is cold water?
300
The blanket of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is atmosphere?
300
It measures air pressure.
What does a barometer do?
300
When a gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
It moves quickly and often brings stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
300
If the climate on one side of the mountain is dry then on the other side it is often this.
What is wet?
400
A large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
400
Any form of water that falls from clouds.
What is precipitation?
400
You cannot see it, but it is part of the air around you. Water in the gas state.
What is water vapor?
400
It brings light, steady rain and causes the air temperature to rise.
What is a warm front?
400
If there are signs of a severe storm then scientists must do this.
What is alert the government and the public?
500
a boundary between air masses with different temperatures.
What is a front?
500
The weight of air pushing on something.
What is air pressure?
500
Three types of clouds.
What is cumulus, stratus, cirrus?
500
Where a storm usually forms.
What is along a front?
500
The two factors that can affect climate.
What is latitude and altitude?
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