Measurement
It's a Cloud
Kinds of Precipitation
Parts of the Water Cycle
Miscellaneous
100
Measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain guage?
100
Look like fluffy piles of cotton.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
Most common type of precipitation.
What is rain?
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds.
What is precipitation?
100
Smaller versions of rain.
What is mist or drizzle?
200
How many centimeters of snow equal 1 cm of rain?
What is ten?
200
Form in flat layers and are spread out.
What are stratus clouds?
200
Ice crystals
What is snow?
200
When liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
200
Long periods of no precipitation.
What are droughts?
300
Measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
300
Look wispy and feathery.
What cirrus clouds?
300
Rain that freezes on a cold surface.
What is freezing rain?
300
When water vapor turns into liquid water.
What is Condensation?
300
The type of cloud that indicates fair or nice weather.
What is cumulus?
400
The temperature at which condensation begins.
What is dew point?
400
Low level stratus clouds that occur after a humid day.
What is fog?
400
Ice pellets larger than 5 mm.
What is Hail?
400
Rain, snow melt, or other water that flows in surface streams, rivers, or canals.
What is Surface Runoff?
400
Common name given to sprinkling tiny crystals of dry ice and silver iodide into clouds to try to produce precipitation.
What is cloud seeding?
500
Part of a psychrometer. Measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
500
Another name for a thunderstorm cloud?
What is cumulonimbus?
500
Ice pellets smaller than 5 mm.
What is sleet?
500
Another name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrological cyle?
500
Used to measure snowfall.
What is a ruler?
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