Water Cycle
Clouds and weather
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
More Meteorology
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100

What causes a sunburn? 

a- toxins in the body brought to the surface 

b- Ultraviolet rays from the sun

c- The exosphere

b- UV rays

100

A powerful electrical current flowing through the air during a thunderstorm is a ___________?

Lightning 

100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200

What is the hot substance pouring out of an erupting volcano?

lava

300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
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?
300

What is the name of the layer in the stratosphere that absorbs ultraviolet (UV) radiation? This layer is known to have a "hole".

The Ozone Layer

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

When do most tornados occur? April through June or November through January?

April through June

400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400

True or false: The eye of a hurricane has calm winds.

true

400

Measures wind speed: 

a- a weather vane

b- anemometer

c- barometer

An anemometer?

400

Which part of the U.S is most likely to have tornados in stead of hurricanes? The Gulf Coast or the Great Plains?

The Plains

400

What are hunks of rock streaking through space at incredible speeds?

Meteoroids (or shooting stars)

500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500

When cold air below warm air forces the warm air to rise, the warm air cools rapidly and the water vapor forms heavy _______ full of ________. soon we will see thunder, lightning and rainstorms.

Clouds       rain/precipitation

500

What is climate?

a- The weather of a place over a long time

b- the description of the days changes is temperature

c- Terrain, for example: rocky, forest, desert, swamp..

a- the weather of a place over a long time

500

What is the hot substance inside a volcano called before it erupts?

magma

500

Does most of Earth's weather happen in the troposphere or the stratosphere?

troposphere

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