Water Cycle
What energy source fuels the water cycle?
What is solar energy (radiation from the sun)?
True or False? A Warm Front brings cooler weather and is less likely to bring precipitation.
What is False?
Name the 4 different types of clouds.
What is cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus?
What weather tool is used to measure the temperature?
What is a thermometer?
In April, we experience the season of Spring. We live in the Northern Hemisphere. If Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, what season would they experience in April?
a. Spring
b. Summer
c. Fall
d. Winter
What is c. Fall?
Name the 4 different types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
A High Pressure system most likely will bring what kind of weather?
What is cool temps and clear skies?
What type of clouds are associated with fair weather? (There are 2)
What are cumulus and cirrus clouds?
What 2 weather tools are used to measure the wind?
What are anemometers and wind vanes?
Where do hurricanes form?
What is in warm ocean waters?
Which steps of the water cycle are responsible for returning water back to the earth?
What are run off and precipitation?
What is Cool, Less
Which type of cloud is a good predictor of precipitation?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
If there is a weather forecast for high humidity and an increase in cloud coverage, which weather instrument could be used to tell us this?
Florida having mild temperatures in the winter is due to the warm weather brought by the ____________ stream.
What is the Gulf Stream?
If you see water on the grass early in the morning but it didn't rain last night, what two steps of the water cycle have most likely happened?
What are transpiration and condensation?
Darius sees that it is 54 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny outside. Darius sees on his weather app that tomorrow will be 60 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy. Which pressure system is moving into Darius's city? (Low or High Pressure)
What is Low Pressure System?
Which step in the Water Cycle is responsible for the formation of clouds?
What is Condensation?
PJ sees a cirrus cloud and knows that means a change in weather is coming. What weather tool should PJ use to help him track the change in air pressure?
What is a barometer?
What 2 weather systems cause the United States weather to move from west to east?
What are the prevailing westerlies and the jet stream?
In the summer, people that own pools often have to refill the pools with water. Why does this happen?
What is the earth receives the most sunlight in the summer months therefore more evaporation causes the pool water to evaporate out of the pool?
Which weather tool could be used to predict a low or high pressure system is coming?
What is a Barometer?
In January, Stella notices that the sky has big, blanket-like clouds that indicate that it might snow. What kinds of clouds does Stella see?
Anthony wants to see how much rain he can collect in a plastic cup at his house. Anthony can use this plastic cup as a __________. (Hint: Think weather tools!)
What is a rain gauge?
This year we are having an El Nino year. This means here in NC we are experiencing ______ (warm/cold) and _______ (dry/wet) weather conditions.
What is cold and wet?