Changing Seasons
Animals like snakes, turtles, and frogs do this in the winter
What is hibernate?
This is the most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
A dry, barren habitat with little rainfall
What is a desert?
When water falls from the sky, as in rain
What is precipitation?
This is the word for weather patterns over long periods of time, like years or centuries
What is climate?
In search of food and warmer weather, some birds butterflies do this in the winter
What is migrate?
These violently spinning columns of air can reach speeds of up to 250 miles per hour
What are tornadoes?
A wet, lush landscape filled with trees, flowers, and lots of rain
What is a rainforest?
When water changes into a gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
The climate is hottest around the middle of the Earth, called this
What is the equator?
The first day of Spring is always on this date
What is March 20?
These powerful storms form over the ocean and can be over 600 miles wide
What is a hurricane?
A habitat with changing water levels, riffles, and a winding channel
What is a river or stream?
When water vapor rises into the sky and cools back into droplets, forming clouds
What is condensation?
A period of time when the Earth's climate cooled considerably
What is an ice age?
When the soil reaches about 64 degrees, these screeching creatures emerge from the ground
What are cicadas?
When we get a lot of rain in a very short span of time, sometimes this kind of severe weather can occur
What is a flash flood?
An underwater habitat that gets no light and is ultra-pressurized
What is the deep sea?
What it's called when water ends up back on land, in the form of water bodies, ice, snow, and groundwater
What is collection?
Climate change has led to the melting of glaciers and these, found in polar regions
What are ice caps or ice shelves?
In the fall, leaves change color and fall because they stop producing this green pigment
What is chlorophyll?
Thunder is the sound created by this split-second weather event
What is lightning?
An extremely cold habitat where trees don't grow
The word for when water from trees and other plants enters the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
These gases get trapped in the atmosphere and are causing the Earth's atmosphere to warm and change
What are greenhouse gases?