Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Convection Currents
100

Name for rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the sky

What is the precipitation?

100

A clouds that is formed by a man made machine

What are the clouds formed behind airplanes?

100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100

Name the heat sourse

What is the ground?

200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200

Name a difference in hail clouds to all other clouds:

larger, taller, more compact, fluffier

200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200

Name the state where hailstorm happen the LEAST

What is California? (or a neighboring state)

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

Process by which clouds are formed

What is condensation? 

300

Instrument that measures temperature

What is a thermometer?

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

Name the type of energy that is added to particles when they gain heat

What is kinetic energy?

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 humidity

What is a humidity probe?

400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400

What causes the hot air to rise?

What is lower density?

500

Process by which water turns from a solid into a gas

What is transpiration?

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?
500

Where in the US do most hailstorms occur?

What is the Mid West?

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