Water Cycle
This is the part of the water cycle when water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
What is a drought?
This zone has a dry season and a wet season.
What is the Tropical Zone?
A tool that is used to measure wind speed is __________.
What is an anemometer?
This is clouds that form close to the ground.
What is fog?
This is the part of the water cycle when cooled water vapor changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
This is a funnel-shaped clous of swirling winds that reaches the ground.
What is a tornando?
This zone is not too hot or too cold.
What is the Temperate Zone?
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place is called ___________.
What is weather?
These are clouds that are fluffy and cotton-like and usually mean the weather is far.
What are cumulus clouds?
T/F Air temperature is warmer above the earth's surface.
What is false?
This is a storm of strong, swirling winds and heavy rain that forms over warm ocean waters.
What is a hurricane?
This zone has times of heavy rain and times of little or no rain.
This is a tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
These clouds are high, thin, and wispy often mean a change in weather is coming.
What are cirrus clouds?
This is the part of the water cycle when water falls from the sky to the ground.
What is precipitation?
This is a snowstorm with strong winds.
What is a blizzard?
This zone has a spring, summer, winter, and fall.
What is Temperate Zone?
Water frozen into tiny crystals that stick together and fall from the sky is ___________.
What is snow?
A change in weather patterns over many years is called __________.
The ____________ moves water from the earth to the sky.
What is the water cycle?
This is severe weather that usually occurs in warm weather and has lightning, thunder, heavy rain, and strong winds.
What is a thunderstorm?
This zone is almost always cold.
What is the Polar Zone?
T/F After the flood ended, the earth's climate changed.
What is true?
T/F Weather predications can help people plan and be safe in severe weather.
What is true?