THE WATER CYCLE
THE 3 R'S
NATURAL RESOURCES
WEATHER
WEATHER TOOLS
100
This powers the water cycle.
What is the sun? 
100
These are the 3 R's.
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?  
100
This is something that comes from nature and people use it.  
What is a natural resource?
100
This is the name for the condition of the atmosphere at one time and place.  
What is weather?
100
This tool is used to measure rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
When water vapor rises and becomes liquid water.
What is condensation?
200
The type of pollution caused when people throw trash into the sewer drains and it dumps off into our rivers, lakes, and ocean.  
What is water pollution?  
200
This is a resource that can easily be replaced, such as trees.
What is a renewable resource? 
200

The type of warning a meteorologist would give on the news if there is rain, lightning, and thunder.



What is a thunderstorm warning?  
200
This tool shows what direction the wind is coming from.  
What is a wind vane?
300

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and runoff.

What are the steps of the water cycle?  
300
This R means to use less of a resource, such as turning off the lights when you are not in the room.  
What is reduce?
300
This is a type of resource that will never run out, such as air and water.  
What is an inexhaustible resource?
300
This happens when you see puddles of water in the morning but then later that afternoon the water is gone.  
What is the sun's heat evaporated the water?  
300
This is the tool used to measure air temperature.  
What is a thermometer?
400
When liquid water changes to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
400
This R means to use something over again instead of throwing away, such as using a lunchbox instead of paper bags every day. 
What is reuse?
400
This is a resource that cannot be replaced in our lifetime, such as soil, coal, and oil.
What is a nonrenewable reource?
400
Do you measure or observe to describe precipitation type(rain, snow, sleet, or hail).   
What is observe?  
400
True or False?  

A rain gauge should be placed outside somewhere where nothing is blocking the top of it.  

What is True?
500

This is how much of the Earth's surface is covered with water.

What is 75% or 3/4?
500
This R means to turn it into something else instead of throwing it away/  
What is Recycle?
500
This natural resources takes a very long time to form, 500-1,000 years, which is why it is considered a nonrenewable resource.  
What is soil?
500
The direction weather typically moves in.
What is from west to east?
500
This tool tells meteorologist the speed of the wind.  
What is an anemometer or wind meter?  
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