Vocabulary
The amount of water vapor in the air...
What is Humidity?
When lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. become heated by the sun, the heat energy causes the liquid water to change into a gas (water vapor)...
What is Evaporation?
This weather tool is used to collect and measure amounts of rainfall...
What is a Rain Gauge?
This type of cloud looks like a puffy cotton ball. It is a lower level cloud and they are usually bright white. They mean fair weather...
What are Cumulus Clouds?
This is where most of the Earth's water (97%) is found...
What are the Oceans?
An area where one air mass meets another...
What is a Front?
When water vapor cools and turns back into liquid water, it joins together and clings to dirt or smoke particles in the atmosphere forming clouds.
What is Condensation?
This weather tool shows us the direction that the wind is blowing...
What is a Wind (weather) Vane?
These clouds are storm clouds. They are tall, vertical clouds that look like an anvil at the top. They are gray at the bottom and white on top. They tell us that thunder and lightening will be occurring...
What are Cumulonimbus Clouds?
Only 2% of the Earth's freshwater supply are found here...
What are Glaciers and Polar Ice Caps?
A scientist who studies and forecasts weather...
What is a meteorologist?
This is any type of liquid water (hail, rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain) that falls to Earth from the clouds when the clouds become saturated...
What is Precipitation?
This tool measures the speed of the wind...
What is an Anemometer?
These clouds are very low level clouds. They look like layers of pancakes in the sky. They can even be fog and they mean precipitation will happen.
What are Stratus Clouds?
Only 1% of Earth's usable freshwater supply is found here...
What is Lakes, Rivers, and Groundwater?
The force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air. The pushing force of air down down on the Earth...
What is Air Pressure?
This water term describes any water that seeps into the ground, back into rivers, lakes, or oceans...
What is Accumulation or Storage?
This weather tool measures air pressure in an area...
What is a Barometer?
This type of cloud is a very high level cloud. It is so high in the sky that they are formed by ice crystals instead of liquid water. They are thin and wispy and bright white.
What are Cirrus Clouds?
True or False....there is MORE fresh water on Earth than salt water.
What is False?
These are the 5 types of precipitation that can fall from the sky. Temperature affects which type we get.
What is Hail, Rain, Snow, Freezing Rain, and Sleet?
These form when tiny droplets of water gather together on dust or smoke particles in the atmosphere after condensation...
What is a Cloud?
This weather tool measures the amount of humidity that there is in the air...
What is a Hygrometer?
This is the science word used to describe clouds that are rain bearing...
What is Nimbus?
The water cycle use new water from Earth every time it rains...
What is NO, it reuses or recycles Earth's water.