Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Vocabulary
Weather Fronts
Weather Instruments
100
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow fall from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain place or time
What is weather?
100
The occurrence of when two air masses meet
What is a front?
100
Weather instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
200
The changing of gas to a liquid as heat is removed
What is condensation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who studies weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
When cold air replaces and moves in over a warm front
What is a cold front?
200
Weather instrument used to show wind direction
What is a weather vane?
300
The process of changing gas into a liquid
What is evaporation?
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
The weather of a place over a long time; the average weather pattern
What is climate?
300
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass and brings light steady rain or snow
What is a warm front?
300
Weather instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
400
The four types of precipitation effect us in many different ways
What are rain, sleet, snow, and hail?
400
Clouds that form at the Earth's surface
What is fog?
400
Wind blowing from land to sea
What is a land breeze?
400
A boundary of where two air masses meet but neither one is strong enough to over take one another
What is a stationary front?
400
Weather instrument used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
500
The process in which precipitation is returned to lakes, rivers, streams, oceans, and underground
What is run-off?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Large, powerful storm that that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
500
When a cold front cuts off and overtakes a warm front
What is an occluded front?
500
Weather instrument used to measure the amount of rain that has fallen out of the atmosphere
What is a rain gauge?
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