Water Cycle
Clouds
Atmosphere & Climate
Vocabulary
States of water
100
This is a word for when the cloud gets heavy and full of water particles that it starts to pour.
What is PRECIPITATION?
100
Water particles gathering and floating in the air.
What is a cloud?
100
This gas is the air we need to breathe to live.
What is oxygen?
100
This term is a very small quantity or piece.
What are PARTICLES?
100
This is when water is at room-temperature, neither scorching hot or freezing cold.
What is liquid water?
200
This is the process of water heating and rising in the air; it happens after accumulation.
What is EVAPORATION?
200
This type of cloud is fluffy tall, and does NOT create a storm.
What is a CUMULUS CLOUD?
200
This is the hottest region on Earth that receives the most direct sunlight.
What is the EQUATOR?
200
This term is the average weather in a place over a long time.
What is CLIMATE?
200
This is the solid state of water that is frozen.
What is [solid] ice?
300
This star is the energy source needed for the water cycle to happen.
What is the SUN?
300
This type of cloud is low, flat, and widespread, and does NOT create a storm.
What is a STRATUS CLOUD?
300
These places are where water vapor in the atmosphere comes from.
What are oceans, lakes, and rivers (or bodies of water)?
300
This term is for "a mixture of gases that surround a planet."
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
300
This is the state of water when it is heated and rises up in the air.
What is water vapor (water as a gas)?
400
This is the term for when water evaporates from plants and trees.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
400
This type of cloud is tall, fluffy, and is likely to create a storm.
What is a CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD?
400
These two places receive little sunlight and heat, and have a cold climate all year long.
What are the North Pole and South Pole?
400
This is fine particles of water floating in the air as gas.
What is WATER VAPOR?
400
These are pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds; could be the size of golf balls.
What is HAIL?
500
This is when water vapor cools to become liquid water.
What is CONDENSATION?
500
This type of cloud is low, dark, flat, and widespread, and will likely cause rain most of the day.
What is a stratonimbus (or nimbostratus) cloud?
500
This is what happens when too much carbon dioxide is in our atmosphere.
What is global warming (or ice caps melting)?
500
This the process when water has been collected during the water cycle after precipitation (rain).
What is ACCUMULATION?
500
These two gases are what make up water.
What is 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen (H2O)?