W.C. Vocab
Clouds
Cloud Types
The Water Cycle
Misc.
100
The continuous cycling of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
100
Stratus cloud that is on the Earth's surface
What is fog?
100
formed at high elevations and wispy clouds
What are cirrus clouds?
100
The reason Earth's water has lasted millions of years.
What is the water cycle?
100
Liquid that falls from the atmosphere to Earth
What is precipitation?
200
Plants releasing water vapor
What is transpiration?
200
Cumulus, Cirrus and Stratus
What are three major cloud groups?
200
Formed at medium or low elevation and spread out layer upon layer covering a large area.
What are stratus clouds?
200
Change in water from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
200
Name the four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet, hail?
300
The boss of the water cycle.
What is the sun?
300
A prefix used to indicate medium-level clouds
What is alto?
300
Formed at medium or low elevation and puffy with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
How water enters the Earth's atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
300
Water, dust and smoke
What are clouds made of?
400
When clouds get full and releases rain, snow, sleet or hail
What is precipitation?
400
name you put in front of a cloud name combination
What is a prefix?
400
Also called thunderhead and often part of thunderstorms conditions that may accompany a cold front.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
This is where 97% of the Earth's water is located
In the oceans
400
Clouds consisting of ice crystals
What are cirrus clouds?
500
Sum of all water on Earth
What is hydrosphere?
500
When water vapor condenses directly onto a surface
What is dew?
500
Formed at high elevation with layers upon layers.
What are cirrostratus clouds?
500
The type of clouds that bring thunderstorms
What are Cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Forms when raindrops pass through a layer of freezing air near Earth's surface forming ice pellets.
What is hail?
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