Water Cycle
How many steps are there in the Water Cycle?
3
Shaking, rolling, or sudden shock of the earth's surface.
Earthquake.
How many layers are there in the atmosphere?
5
These clouds are low-level clouds that form in LAYERS. They bring steady rain.
Stratus Clouds
What weather instrument measures temperature?
Thermometer
Water Vapor
A large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or a volcanic explosion.
Tsunami.
What is the weight of air presses down on Earth called?
Air pressure.
These types of clouds are fluffy and have flat bases. They usually mean fair weather.
Cumulus clouds
What is precipitation?
Any form of water that falls from clouds to Earth. Rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What a liquid turns to gas.
Evaporation
The place where TWO air masses meet is called what?
Front
The coldest temperatures are found in this layer of the atmosphere.
Mesosphere.
These types of clouds are thin, feathery clouds made of ice crystals.
Cirrus
A scientist who studies weather?
Meteorologist.
When a gas turns to liquid.
Condensation
A huge swirling storm that forms over the ocean?
Hurricane.
What type of gas makes up 78% of air?
Nitrogen
These types of clouds bring thunderstorms.
Cumulonimbus
A large body of air that has about the same temperature, air pressure, and moisture throughout.
Air mass
What is the Water Cycle?
The process of water moving around between air and land.
What weather instrument calculates the wind speed in kilometers an hour or miles an hour?
Anemometer
What does TSMTE stand for?
The strange monkey takes eggs.
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere.
Clouds are made of what?
Bonus +500 - How do clouds form?
Millions of tiny little water droplets.
What is a prediction of what the weather will be for a particular day, week, or longer period of time?
Forecast