Water Cycle
Hurricanes/Tornadoes
Vocabulary
Tools
Other
100
The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
100
develop over warm ocean water.
What are hurricanes?
100
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The weight of air of any one spot.
What is air pressure?
200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas call water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A rapidly spinning column of air that comes down out of a thunderstorm.
What are tornadoes?
200
The amount of water in the air.
What is humidity?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
A prediction of what the weather will be like for the next few days.
What is a weather forecast?
300
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
A dangerous storm with wind speeds of at least 119 kilometers per hour.
What are hurricanes?
300
The three basic factors that affect weather conditions.
What are temperature, air pressure and water?
300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
The amount of water that covers the earth's surface.
What is 3/4 ?
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
Almost all of these form over land.
What are tornadoes?
400
The layer of air around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
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
This dangerous storm has winds that can reach up to 500 kilometers per hour.
What are tornadoes?
500
The area where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
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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