Water Cycle
Clouds
Severe Weather
Tools
Maps/Data
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 or rain.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Also called a twister, very dangerous and fast.
What is a tornado?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The weather cools off after this front and is indicated by a blue line on a weather map.
What is a cold 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
A storm that starts over water, meteorologists give them names.
What is a hurricane?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
The weather warms up after this front and is indicated by a red line on a weather map.
What is a warm 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
This storm has a mixture of heavy rain, lightning and possible hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Data that is described with numbers, like temperature and wind speed.
What is quantitative data?
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
Tiny droplets that come together during condensation.
What are clouds?
400
A safety precaution for this storm is to board up your house and evacuate the area.
What is a hurricane?
400
A tool used to determine the direction the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
400
Data that is described with words using your five senses.
What is qualitative data?
500
Water that stays on top of the ground and that does not absorb into the soil.
What is runoff?
500
Cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorm clouds?
500
A safety precaution of this storm encourages you to go to the lowest floor of your house, in a room with no windows.
What is the tornado?
500
A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
West to East
What direction does weather move across the U.S.?
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