Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Natural Disasters
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100

Name a natural disaster happens in California especially during hot months.

What is a drought or wildfire?

200

The process of water changing into a gas called water vapor

What is evaporation?

200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200

Name the large wave that happens after an earthquake.

What is a Tsunami

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

Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky, they are ice particles

What are cirrus clouds?

300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

Name the natural disaster where plate techtonics rub against eachother.

What is an earthquake?

400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400

What type of natural disaster has names?

What is a hurricane?

500

Water that falls from the sky as snow, hail, or water.

What is precipitation?

500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500

Name a tornado that is over water

What is a water spout?

500

Name the three types of volcanoes.

What is Shield Volcano, Cinder Cones, and Stratovolcanoes?

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