Water Cycle
The process by which water circulates between the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land.
What is the water cycle?
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
Scientists who study weather
What is a meterologist?
Instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
What is the atmosphere?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
White, puffy clouds that usually bring fair weather
What are cumulus clouds?
A cycle of warm rising air and sinking cool air
What is a convection cell?
Instrument to measure the amount of precipation
What is a rain gauge?
The layer of air where weather takes place
What is the troposphere?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
A narrow band of strong wind that flows near the top of the troposphere
What is a jet stream?
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind
What is an anemometer?
The layer where jets fly and that contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
Water in the form of rain, sleet, or snow
What is precipitation?
The state of the temperature, wind, and precipitation at a certain time and place
What is a weather?
Instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
The middle layer of the atmosphere where meteroids burn up
What is the mesosphere?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Infiltration
What are the four phases of the water cycle?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds are on the way
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The weather in a place over a long period time
What is climate?
Instrument to measure relative humidity
What is a sling psychrometer?
The two main gases that make up the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen?