Water Cycle
Precipitation
Weather
Vocabulary
What's the Weather?
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Frozen raindrop that gets larger as it gets blown back up into the clouds by the wind

What is hail?

100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100

It is cold and rainy outside.

What is weather?

200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200

frozen raindrops that start as rain but freeze as they fall to Earth's surface

What is sleet?

200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Pressure that brings clear, fair weather-happy weather

What is high pressure?

300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300

What is any form of water that falls from the atmosphere to Earth's surface.

What is precipitation?

300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300

Virginia has mild winters.

What is climate?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400

Frozen precipitation that starts as ice crystals and falls as flakes.

What is snow?

400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400

Amount of water vapor in the air. 

What is humidity?

500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Begins as snow and melts as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere.
What is rain?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500

Measured in celsius or farenheit.

What is temperature?

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