Water Cycle
Clouds
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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
When a warm air mass replaces a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
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
When a cold air mass replaces a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
The difference between weather and climate
Weather is over a short period of time and climate is over a long period of time.
300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
When a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet.
What is a stationary 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
Rain clouds.
What are nimbus clouds?
400
A collection of water; oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.
What is accumulation?
400
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
500
Water that is found underground/
What is groundwater?
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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