Water Cycle
Natures way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
The state of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls for them.
What are stratus clouds?
Where should you go during a tornado if you are in the house.
What is the basement?
Most common type of storm.
What is a thunderstorm?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornados
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
Another name for a hurricane