Clouds
Water Cycle
Weather Instruments
Waters
Climate
100
Cirrus Clouds
What cloud is high and wispy and found in clear skies?
100
Condensation
What is the second step of the water cycle?
100
It measure wind direction
What does a wind vane measure.
100
3/4
Water covers about _____ of the of the earth's crust.
100
Is the average weather in a large area over a period of many years.
What is climate?
200
Cumulonimbus Clouds
What cloud is like a Giant Thunderhead cloud?
200
What is my favorite type of chocolate
Hershey's Cookies and cream
200
Is the hotness or coldness of the air.
What is air temperature?
200
Is water that collects underground.
What is groundwater?
200
Warmer
Temperate regions are tilted toward the sun are ______.
300
Cirrus clouds
What cloud can mean a change in weather?
300
-Vapor cools as it rises -turns back into liquid droplets -which attach themselves to dust particles that make clouds
What are the steps of condensation?
300
Relative humidity
What does a hygrometer measure?
300
Ice caps are thick sheets of ice that cover areas around the North and South Poles.
What are ice caps?
300
It is caused by the release of greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide, which trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere
How is global warming caused?
400
Stratocumulus clouds
What cloud is a dark, heavy water droplet cloud?
400
-sun heats the water -turns water from a liquid to a gas -which rises
What are the steps of evaporation?
400
An instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
400
Lakes and Streams
Where can you find Surface Water?
400
It occurs in any climate zone area where rainfall is scarce.
Where do desert climates occur?
500
Altocumulus clouds
What cloud is like a thick blue-gray blanket-like clouds that is made up of ice & water?
500
Water runs downhill towards sea level
What is accumulation?
500
Is the amount of water vapor that is actually in the air, compared to the amount of water vapor in the air that can hold at that temperature
What is relative humidity?
500
3%
less than _____% of Earth's water is freshwater.
500
It is a climate event that happens every few years and can change climate patterns around the world, causing floods and droughts.
What is EL Nino?
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