Water Cycle
Nature's way of recycling water.
The water cycle.
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them.
What are stratus clouds?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
The process of water changing into vapor.
What is evaporation?
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
Scientists who study the weather
Who are meteorologists?
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Thin feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
April through June
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is Condensation?
Cloud that forms at the earth's surface.
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado?
Pull over and get out
Water that is found underground?
What is groundwater?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?