Water Cycle
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The weight of air of any one spot.
What is air pressure?
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
High pressure air rushing toward low pressure air.
What is wind?
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles that come before stormy weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
A prediction about what the weather will be in the future.
What is a forecast?
Heavy air that pushes away storms and brings clear skies.
What is high pressure?
The part of the water cycle where tiny drops of water collect into large enough droplets to fall to the ground as; rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
The term for gray clouds that carry rain.
What are nimbus clouds?
The layer of air around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
A funnel shaped windstorm that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?
The part of the water cycle where water gathers into large bodies on the surface of the earth
What is collection?
Very tall anvil shaped clouds that often drop heavy rain and bring lightning.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
A tool that tells how much humidity is in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?