Atmosphere
Two of the four seasons in a year
What are spring, summer, fall, and winter?
This is the name of the cycle that includes evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
What is the water cycle?
The name of a type of storm that's a swirling cloud that sucks things up like a vacuum cleaner.
What is a tornado?
Temperature is the name for how _ or _ something is.
What is hot or cold?
How many oceans are there?
This is what we call air pressing down on things
What is air pressure?
Precipitation is water falling from a cloud. Name one type of precipitation.
Rain, snow, or hail.
Hot or warm air goes this direction
What is up?
A weather balloon takes measurements here.
What is high up in the air in the sky?
What kind of water is in the ocean?
Saltwater
The job title of a person who studies the weather and predicts what the weather will be like tomorrow
What is a meteorologist?
Clouds are made of this.
What is water?
This is the safest place to be in a house during a tornado.
What is a basement, under stairs, under a strong table, or in a bathtub with cushions on top of you.
This is what we call moving air
What is wind?
Wind pushes water, causing an up and down movement called a ___
This is one of the four types of climates we have studied.
Polar, tropical, desert, and temperate
This is the most common type of precipitation
What is rain?
This is the name of a large amount of air that is all the same temperature.
What is an air mass?
April showers bring May __ .
What are flowers?
Gravity from the moon causes the water level to rise and fall throughout the day, causing ___
What are tides?
Name all 7 of the colors in the rainbow.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
Name one type of cloud
What is stratus, cirrus, or cumulus?
This is the name of the center of a hurricane where there is less wind and things are calm in the middle of the storm.
What is the eye?
This large, hot object heats up the land, the air, and the water, causing weather.
What is the sun?
Name the 3 ocean zones we talked about last week.
Sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone.