Water Cycle
Clouds
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Tools
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100
The process in which water becomes a liquid after being a solid
What is melting?
100
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The condition of the air around us day to day.
What is weather?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Precipitation that is freezing rain
What is sleet?
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 over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
To predict future weather
What is to forecast?
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
It pushes cold air out and under warm air creating a thunderstorm
What is a cold front?
300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Cold heavy air
What is high pressure air?
400
Water becomes a gas at this temperature
What is 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit?
400
Rain clouds.
What are nimbus clouds?
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 comes from leaves
What is transpiration?
500
Cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorm clouds?
500
The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
500
A tool used to measure humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
500
Forms when a warm and cold front meet
What is a tornado?
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