Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
100

How nature recycles 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 most common type of storm

What is a thunderstorm?

200

What its called when 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

Spinning clouds in the shape of a funnel

What is a tornado?

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 shows the wind's direction

What is a wind vane?

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400

Measures the wind's speed

What is an anemometer?

400

Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rain

What is a flood?

500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
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
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
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