The Water Cycle
The main source of energy for the water cycle
What is the Sun?
Is the statement below about weather or climate?
Over the past 10 years, July has been the hottest month.
Climate
Measures wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Three of Earth's climate zones
What are tropical, temperate, and polar.
What is the tropical climate zone?
Most of the water that evaporates on Earth comes from
What is the ocean?
The factors that affect climate
What are latitude, elevation, bodies of water, and landforms?
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
This climate zone is farthest from the equator. They have cold temperatures year round and low amounts of percipitation.
The arctic belongs to this climate zone
What is the polar climate zone?
Clouds form in this part of the water cycle
What is condensation?
If the barometer reads high air pressure, what will the weather be like?
What is sunny skies/clear weather?
Measures the amount of humidity in the air
What is a hygrometer?
This climate zone is found near the equator. This climate zone is generally warm.
What is tropical climate?
Both the rainforest and the desert are very warm. How are they different?
It does not rain as often in the desert as it does in the rainforest.
Liquid water that turns into a gas
What is water vapor?
Scientists who study weather
What is meteorologists?
Carries tools high up into the atmosphere
What is a weather balloon?
This climate zone is found in middle latitudes. Latitude is a measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is temperate climate?
This environment is covered in water. Temperatures may be hot during certain parts of the year. This environment occurs because the ground cannot soak up all of the water.
What is the swamp/wetlands?
The four different types of percipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
The difference between weather and climate?
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a given place or time.
Climate refers to longterm weather patterns.
How does air temperature affect the types of parcipitation?
Rain = warm or cool air
Snow = cold air; water vapor turns into snow crystals
Sleet = begins as rain or snow; freezes at the ground
Hail = made of layers of ice; raindrops that picked up and freeze in clouds
This climate zone shows four distinct seasons
What is the temperate climate zone?
This environment is warm and wet year-round. Vegetation covers most of the land.
What is the tropical rain forest?