Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Atmosphere
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

The coldest layer and burns up meteroroids

What is mesophere?

200
The process of water changing into an invisible 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

The layer where planes fly, clouds form, and 75% of the gases

What is troposphere?

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

Instrument that measures air pressure

What is a barometer?

300

Ozone layer and weather balloons.

What is the stratpshere?

400

The process of water vapor turning into water droplets, the water collects in the clouds

What is condensation?

400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400

The amount that air presses or pushes on anything.

What is air pressure?

400

Very hot-reaches 3,600 degrees. ionshpere and exosphere make up this layer

What is the thermosphere?

500

The sun's heat and gravity causes this cycle.

What is Hydrologic cycle?

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

Where outer space begins

What is the exosphere?

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