Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Energy and the Atmosphere
Winds and Storms
100

The most common state of water on Earth

What is liquid?

100

The layer of the atmosphere where all weather and clouds happen.

What is the troposphere?

100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100

What is the name of the type of light produced by the sun that humans can see

What is visible light?

100

Type of precipitation that stays frozen from cloud to ground and is made of ice crystals

What is snow?

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 type of radiation produced by the sun that can give you sunburn

What is ultraviolet light?

200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
300
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
300

Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface

What is fog?

300
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300

The type of heat transfer that requires contact

What is conduction?

300
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
400
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?
400

Instrument that measures air pressure

What is a barometer?

400

Give an example of a greenhouse gas

What is (carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, NOx, VOCs)?

400

Large, powerful storm that occurs over large, bodies of water and results in a spiral pattern due to a low center of pressure

What is a hurricane?

500
The process by which plants release water vapor from their leaves

What is transpiration?

500

Tall, dark clouds that span all three cloud heights and result in thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

500

The weather of a place over a long period of time

What is climate?

500

The type of heat transfer responsible for wind currents 

What is convection?

500

The convection cells that are present from the equator to 30N and 30S latitude

What are Hadley cells?

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