Water Cycle/Precipitation
List the steps of the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff/groundwater?
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
It is puffy with a flat bottom, and signals rainy or fair weather.
What is cumulus?
The type of front when warm air slowly moves over cold air.
What is a warm front?
The difference between weather and climate.
What is weather at a specific time and place and what is long term weather?
The process of the sun heating up the water changing it from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Measures precipitation amounts.
What is a rain gauge?
What is cumulonimbus?
The type of front when warm air is rapidly pushed out by cold air.
The description of an air mass that forms over a tropical ocean.
What is wet and warm?
Water that does not soak into the ground.
What is runoff?
Tool that measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
Feathery, white, thin clouds that signal fair weather or a change in weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
The weather that occurs at the boundary of a warm front.
What is light rain or snow?
The description of an air mass that forms over land in the summer.
What is hot and dry?
What is hail going up and down in a thundercloud which adds a layer of ice each time.
Tool that measures humidity (water vapor) in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
Blanket like clouds that signal fog or precipitation.
What are stratus clouds?
What is severe weather?
The description of an air mass that forms over polar waters.
What is a cold and wet air mass?
The precipitation that fills aquifers.
Ground water (precipitation that falls on land)
People who study weather.
What is a meteorologist?
How clouds form.
What is water vapor condensing in the atmosphere?
The difference between high pressure air masses and low pressure air masses.
What is air that is close together, colder, but brings fair weather AND air that is spread out, warmer, but brings precipitation?
A warm ocean current that affects the temperature and precipitation of coastal areas of North America and northern Europe.
What is the gulf stream?