Temperature
What is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit?
32 Degrees Fahrenheit.
What is weather?
The condition of the outside air at a particular moment.
What type of cloud is like a fluffy piece of cotton that are thick and high in the sky, seen in fair weather?
Cumulus Clouds
What is water vapor?
Water vapor is water in its gas form.
What causes evaporation of water?
Evaporation of water is caused by the heat from the sun.
What is the freezing point of water in Celsius?
0 Degrees Celsius.
What is temperature?
The measure of how warm or cold something is.
What type of clouds are rain-bearing clouds that are dark and 'ragged' at the edges?
Nimbus Clouds
What is evaporation?
It is the changing of water (liquid) into a water vapor (gas).
What causes condensation of water vapor?
Cold air
What is the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit?
212 Degrees Fahrenheit.
What does temperature depend on? Give an example.
How much of the suns energy is reaching the ground.
In the summer, it is warmer than winter.
What cloud is often connected with stormy weather and where you might see fog that is formed close to the ground?
Stratus Cloud
It is the changing of water vapor (gas) into water (liquid).
How are snow and sleet different?
Snow is a solid and Sleet is a mixture of a solid & liquid.
What is the boiling point of water in Celsius?
100 Degrees Celsius.
Give six examples of words that can be used to describe weather.
Warm, cold, wet, dry, cloudy or clear.
What kind of cloud is thin and wispy and form high in the sky with low temperature?
Cirrus Clouds.
What is runoff?
It is water flowing ON the earth's surface.
How are ground water and runoff alike?
Groundwater and runoff are alike because they both come from precipitation and fall to the earth.
What two scientists is the Fahrenheit and Celsius scale named after?
Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius
Rain, sleet, hail and snow.
What type of cloud might you see on a rainy day and a sunny day?
Cumulus cloud.
What is groundwater?
It is water that moves downward into the GROUND.
Why is moving wind important for the water cycle and the Earth's water?
If the wind did not move air, clouds and storms, the Earth's water would dry up in certain places and flood in other place.