Water Cycle
Properties of Weather
Weather
Vocabulary
Precipitation
Climate Factors
100
The largest water source part of the water cycle.
What is the ocean?
100
This causes clear skies with no rain when it is in a high.
What is barometric pressure (air pressure)?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
When snow falls through a patch of warm air before falling to the ground.
What is sleet?
100
Height above or below sea level, the higher you are ... the colder you are
What is the elevation?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
There is a lot of moisture in the air when this is at a high. There is a high chance of rain.
What is humidity?
200
Measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
200
Precipitation that occurs when the air from the cloud all the way to the ground is below 32 degrees fahrenheit.
What is snow?
200
How close to the equator you are. Closer is warmer, farther away is colder
What is latitude?
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
When the air feels hot or cold outside.
What is temperature?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
The most common form of precipitation
What is rain?
300
When you live near this, your climate is wetter
What is a large body of water?
400
The process of water vapor (gas) turning into water droplets (liquid).
What is condensation?
400
When it rains, snows, sleets or hails outside.
What is precipitation?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Hail, rain, sleet and snow.
What is precipitation?
400
A very dry climate with little rain and humidity.
What is the desert climate?
500
Evaporation, precipitation, condensation and runoff.
What is the water cycle?
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
Precipitation that falls down as ice.
What is hail?
500
A moist and humid climate with lots of trees.
What is a swamp?
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