Water Cycle
Weather
Weather Instruments
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
Define Evaporation.
Evaporation is when water changes into water vapor.
100
A funnel cloud that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
This weather instrument tells the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
A measure of how salty water is.
What is salinity?
100
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
How long does water stay in Earth's atmosphere?
What is forever... Water changes states but it never disappears.
200
Storms that get their energy from warm ocean water.
What are hurricanes?
200
This weather instrument shows the air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
An artificial lake that forms behind a dam.
What is a reservoir?
200
A large body of air with similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
Water that falls from clouds as snow, rain, sleet or hail is called this.
What is precipitation.
300
There are many different wind currents. Name two of them.
What are polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies and trade winds?
300
This weather instrument measures wind.
What is an anemometer?
300
What is the hydrosphere?
All the waters of the Earth make up the hydrosphere.
300
In the spring, summer and fall, when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass, this type of weather usually results.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
Ice changing into water vapor without melting.
What is sublimation?
400
The name of the winds which helped the early explorers.
What are the trade winds?
400
This weather instrument measures the amount of rain in a certain period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
400
The layer of rock and soil that groundwater flows through.
What is an aquifer?
400
The average of weather conditions over a long period of time (usually 30 years).
What is climate?
500
Why is it called a water cycle? (Please use good science vocabulary)
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection occur again and again and again.
500
Weather is made up of 7 items. Name 5 of them.
What is temperature, moisture, clouds, precipitation, wind speed, air pressure, and wind direction.
500
This weather instrument measures the amount of moisture in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
500
The top level of ground water in an aquifer.
What is a water table?
500
The area around the equator where there is almost no wind at all.
What are the doldrums?
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