Vocabulary
Weather
Climate
Water/Water Cycle
Atmosphere
100
Meteorologist.
What is a scientist who studies weather?
100
Wind, rain, and cloud cover.
What are ways to describe weather?
100
The climate zone that is warm and wet.
What is a tropical climate?
100
States of water.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
100
A cloud that can reach up into the stratosphere.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
200
Humidity.
What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
200
The median of the following weather data. Rainfall (in): 0.54, 0.09, 1.12, 0.06, 0.25
What is 0.25 inches?
200
75% of the earth.
What are the oceans?
200
Evaporation coming from plants.
What is transpiration?
200
How altitude affects climate.
What is the higher the altitude, the colder the climate?
300
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
300
Flooding during the month of January.
What is a weather-related disaster in Washington?
300
Land areas near this have milder summers and winter.
What are large bodies of water?
300
The movement of water from the atmosphere back to the earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
300
Main ingredient of clouds.
What is water?
400
Changing from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
Troposphere.
Where does weather occur?
400
Transfer heat from one part of the world to another.
What are ocean currents?
400
Powers the water cycle.
What is the energy from the sun?
400
Divides the layers of the atmosphere.
What is temperature?
500
The amount of rain, wind, or cloud cover on average.
What is climate?
500
Three ways to measure/describe weather.
What are temperature, cloud cover, wind direction, wind speed, air pressure, and precipitation.
500
Areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What is the way air moves?
500
Proves that water is not created and destroyed.
What is the water cycle?
500
Name all the layers of the atmosphere in order from the surface of the earth upward.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
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