Terms To Know 1
The condition of the air
What is weather?
Moving air
What is wind?
A windstorm often called a twister
What is a tornado?
This is the 1st thing that happens
The sun heats the earth's water
The 6th part of the water cycle is
Water is used on the earth and returns to the ocean
Ice that falls during a thunderstorm
What is hail?
A sound that follows lightening
What is thunder?
The climate area that is always cold
What is the frigid zone?
This is the 2nd thing that happens
The water evaporates
Name 3 common storms
thunderstorm, hurricane, tornado
The sun's heat energy changes water into a gas called.
What is water vapor?
To soak up
What is absorb?
The weather conditions an area receives over time.
What is climate?
This is the 3rd thing that happens
Warm water vapor rises
Name the 3 elements or ingredients that make weather
heat, water, wind
Beads of frozen rain.
What is sleet?
The weight of air
What is air pressure?
Water changing from water vapor back to a liquid
What is condensation?
This is the 4th thing that happens
The water vapor cools, forming a cloud.
Studies weather
meteorologist
The atmosphere keeping heat from the earth from escaping back into space.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Electricity that jumps from one cloud to another to form a cloud to earth.
What is lightening?
Name of the hurricane that sustained winds of 102mph
What is Helene?
This is the 5th thing that happens
The cloud cools causing precipitation to fall
Hurricanes begin...
Tornados begin...
Ocean
Land