Water Cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
Tools
Severe Weather
100
The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100

During this severe weather boarding up winds is a safety precaution.

What is a hurricane?

200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas call water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
200
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200

A storm with heavy rain, lighting, and thunder.

What is a Thunderstorm?

300
The part of the water cycle where tiny drops of water collect into large enough droplets to fall to the ground as; rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
300
Rain clouds.
What are nimbus clouds?
300
The layer of air around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
300
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
400
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
400
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
A mixture of gases. 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen
What is air?
400
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400

Cold heavy air.

What is high pressure air?

500

The main source of energy for the water cycle?

What is the sun?

500
Cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorm clouds?
500
The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
500
A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
A funnel shaped windstrom that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?
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