Weather and Atmosphere
The atmosphere keeping heat from the earth from escaping back into space is called the __________ effect.
What is the GREENHOUSE effect?
What is it called when liquid water becomes water vapor?
What is the whirling windstorm that forms over a warm ocean?
What is a HURRICANE?
The sun's heat energy changes water into a gas called _________.
What is WATER VAPOR?
Rain begins as a tiny little _________.
What is a DROPLET?
The layer of air that surrounds the earth is _____________.
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
The water vapor turns into tiny water ______________.
What are DROPLETS?
What are the two names for windstorms that form over hot land?
What are TORNADO and TWISTER?
The type of weather that is moving air.
What is WIND?
______ are formed when molecules of water vapor begin to freeze.
What are SNOWFLAKES?
This word means to soak up.
What is ABSORB?
Rain, hail, sleet, and snow are all types of ___________________.
The condition of the air is called __________.
What is WEATHER?
The climate area that is always cold is the ______ zone.
This word means to give off.
What is RADIATE?
The _________ is the source of energy that heats the earth.
What is the SUN?
Ice that falls during thunderstorms is ______.
What is HAIL?
A weather scientist is called a ___________.
What is a METEOROLOGIST?
Water changing from water vapor to a liquid is _____________.
What is CONDENSATION?
The weather conditions an area receives over time is ___________?
What is the CLIMATE?
The earth and air are always exchanging water with each other. This is called the _______ cycle.
What is the WATER cycle?
Beads of frozen rain are called ________.
What are SLEET?
What is it called when electricity jumps from one cloud to another or from a cloud to the earth?
What is LIGHTNING?
What are the three elements that make weather?
What are HEAT, WATER, and WIND?