Vocabulary
Water with very little salt in it
What is fresh water?
Salt water (in the oceans)
Oceans, lakes, streams, clouds, and falling rain are ____ water.
Liquid
Water that falls from the clouds to Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
This tool is used to measure temperature
What is thermometer?
The layer of gases that surround the Earth
What is atmosphere
Where is most of the fresh water on earth frozen?
Glaciers at the South Pole
The space between clouds has water vapor. What is water vapor?
Water in gas form.
The process through which water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
What is a blizzard?
One of the gases in Earth's Atmosphere, we breathe it.
Oxygen
Where to people, plants, and animals, get the fresh water they need?
rivers and lakes
True or False: Condensation and Evaporation are opposite processes
True!
The measure of how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
What causes temperatures (and weather) to change on Earth.
The sun's heat!
Ocean, water, water that contains salt
What is salt water?
What causes water to evaporate into the air?
Heat from the sun
What causes rain, sleet, snow and hail?
Water droplets in clouds falling to earth.
The process by which a liquid changes into a gas
What is evaporation?
Name 4 types of severe weather
hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards
The process by which a gas changes into a liquid
What is condensation?
What causes the dew on the grass?
condensed water vapor
What cools and condenses to form clouds as it rises?
Water Vapor
the condition of the atmosphere at any one time and place
What is weather?
What is the difference between a wind vane and a wind meter?
A wind meter measures how fast the wind is blowing, the wind vane measures the direction it is blowing.