Water Cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Precipitation
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100

Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky?

What are stratus clouds?

100

The layer of the earth in the sky?

What is atmosphere

100
It has lightning and heavy rainfall
What is a thunderstorm?
100

The 4 types of precipitation?

What is rain, snow, sleet, hail!

200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
This occurs when air above and on earth is below 32 degrees
What is snow?
300
This stage is when water returns to earth
What is precipitation?
300
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?
300
Instrument that shows the amount of precipitation that has fallen
What is a rain gauge?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
Large balls of ice are thrown back up into a storm cloud to refreeze
What is hail?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400

Climate where it is cold and polar Bears live?

What is the Polar Zone

400
Strong winds and frigid temperatures
What is a blizzard?
400
This occurs when temperatures above the earth are above 32 degrees, but below 32 degrees near the surface
What is sleet?
500

Type of water that evaporates more quickly?

What is Warm!!

500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500

The zone where the rainforest is located which is often rainy and humid?

What is the Tropical Climate Zone?

500
Another name for a tornado
What is a twister?
500

The majority of precipitation falls in this form?

What is rain?

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