Water Cycle
The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The weight of air of any one spot.
What is air pressure?
A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
A large body of air with the same temperature and moisture throughout.
What is an air mass?
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
A cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass, causing stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Cold heavy air.
What is high pressure air?
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?
Clouds that form fog.
What are stratus clouds?
A warm air mass and cold air mass meet, but neither overtakes the other.
What is a stationary front?
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
Water that is found underground/
What is groundwater?
Clouds that cumulonimbus clouds come from.
The layer of air around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
A funnel shaped windstrom that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?