Clouds
Precipitation
Water cycle
Weather
other
100
Clouds that look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
100

When a liquid turns to a gas

 evaporation

100
Scientists who study the atmosphere and the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reach down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
200
Thin, curly-looking clouds that are high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Raindrops that are pushed up over and over again into tall clouds and freeze before falling to the earth form this.
What is hail?
200

when gas turns into a liquid and can form clouds

condensation

200

An instrument that shows the direction wind is blowing from.

What is a wind vane?

200

What type of pressure results in nice, clear skies, 'happy weather'

High pressure

300

Large fluffy-looking clouds,like cotton balls

What are cumulus clouds?

300

Raindrops that freeze on their way to the earth, but go back and forth between water and ice, then land as icy rain form this.

What is sleet?

300

When water comes back to Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, hail

precipitation

300
Instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300

After precipitation falls, this process allows water to flow over land into streams, rivers, and oceans.

What is run off

400

What type of cloud signals a thunderstorm or storm clouds?

Cumulonibus
400
Water droplets in the clouds that join together to make larger drops form this.
What is rain?
400

what comes after condensation?

precipitation 

400
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
400

This type of precipitation is most likely to damage a car

hail

500

Clouds help us determine what?

Weather

500
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth form this.
What is snow?
500

This source of energy powers evaporation and keeps the water cycle moving.

The sun, solar energy

500
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
500

year by year average of the weather over time

climate

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