Vocabulary
Air
Weather
The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle
100
The continuous cycling of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
100
This is made up of mostly nitrogen and oxygen
What is the atmosphere of Earth?
100

how hot or cold something is

What is temperature?

100

Water freezes at ____ degrees Fahrenheit.

32 degrees

100

gas to solid

What is deposition?

200

Examples include, tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and rain.

What is weather?

200

A type of gas that insulates the earth

What is greenhouse gas?

200

The force of the weight of the air pressing down on you

What is air pressure?

200
Change in water from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
200

Name the four types of precipitation

Rain, Snow, Sleet, hail

300

the amount of water vapor in the air

What is humidity?

300

The lowest layer of the atmosphere

What is the troposphere

300

The movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

What is wind?

300
Liquid water becomes a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
What is the most common type of precipitation?
What is rain?
400

liquid to the gas

What is evaporation?

400

This protects living things from the sun's UV radiation

What is ozone

400

If the weather in an area is clear, what is most likely happening to the air pressure?

It is high

400

any form of water that falls from the sky and accumulates

what is precipitation?

400
Liquid water that becomes a gas is called....
water vapor
500

The boundary where two different air masses meet.

What is a front?

500

This layer contains the ionosphere

What is the thermosphere?

500

Air pressure associated with warm air

Low pressure

500
precipitation that falls on land and attempts to return to the ocean or lakes
What is runoff?
500
what powers the water cycle?
the energy/heat from the sun
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