Water Cycle
Any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
This instrument measures how hot or cold something is
What is a thermometer?
This symbol is represented by a red line with small red semicircles pointing in the direction of its movement
What is the symbol for a warm front?
This is the source of energy for the water cycle
What is the Sun?
A person who studies and forecasts the weather
What is a meteorologist?
When water falls on land then flows back to large bodies of water such as rivers and oceans
What is runoff?
This instrument measures the amount of precipitation that falls
What is a rain gauge?
This symbol is represented by a blue line with small blue triangles pointing in the direction of its movement
What is the symbol for a cold front?
320F or 00C
What is freezing point?
The condition of the atmosphere on a day to day basis
What is weather?
Water falls back to Earth from the atmosphere and collects in rivers and oceans
What is accumulation?
This instrument shows the direction that wind is blowing
What is a wind vane or wind sock?
This symbol is represented by a blue capital letter H and what type of weather conditions does it represent?
What is the symbol for high air pressure?
Clear blue skies
2120F or 1000C
What is boiling point?
The stage of the water cycle which occurs clouds forming in the sky
What is condensation?
Water is warmed and changes to a gas
What is evaporation?
This instrument measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
This symbol is represented by a red capital letter L and what type of weather conditions does it represent?
What is the symbol for low air pressure?
Cloudy, stormy weather
This is the force that causes water to flow from our land back to large water bodies
What is gravity?
Patterns of weather conditions such as temperature and precipitation of a region over a long period of time
What is climate?
Water vapor cools and changes into droplets of water which collect to form clouds in the sky
What is condensation?
This instrument measures the speed of wind
What is an anemometer?
This is the symbol for the type of precipitation that falls when the air temperature is higher than 32 0F?
What are raindrops?
These are the 4 types of precipitation
What are rain, hail, sleet and snow?