Water Cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
Weather
Even more
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
We can measure air pressure with
What is a barometer?
100
Weather occurs in the layer of the atmosphere called
What is troposphere?
100
If the air pressure is rising, what will you expect tomorrow?
What is sunshine?
200
Name two examples of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, ice, hail?
200
A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
200
Temperature is measured with
What is a thermometer?
200
If a cold front and warm front meet, you will expect this type of weather
What is stormy weather?
200
A section of air with nearly the same temperature and moisture
What is air mass?
300
A cloud near the ground
What is fog?
300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
We can tell you which way the wind is blowing with
What is a wind vane?
300
High pressure usually means what kind of weather
What is fair weather?
300
When a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass
What is cold front?
400
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?
400
Cloud near the ground
What is fog?
400
An instrument used to measure the speed of wind is
What is an anemometer?
400
A storm system in Ohio will most likely move
What is to the east?
400
A boundary between air masses where the warm air mass slides up and over the cold air mass
What is warm front?
500
Draw a picture of the water cycle
500
Clouds that produce thunderstorms and hail
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
We can measure the amount of rainfall if we use
What is a rain gauge?
500
A boundary between two air masses that don't move
What is a stationary front?
500
A funnel shaped windstrom that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?
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