Water Cycle
Weather Tools
Clouds
Water
This and That
100
What is the person called who studies weather?
What is a meteorologists?
100
What instrument will tell you which way the wind is blowing?
What is a weather/wind vane?
100
What is another name for water vapor directly above the earth's surface that form low clouds?
What is fog?
100

What is the main source of energy for the water cycle?

What is the sun?

100
What weather instrument measures rain fall?
What is a rain gauge?
200
What is an example of water in a gas state
What is water vapor, cloud, or fog?
200
What weather instrument measures air pressure?
What is a barometer?
200
Water vapor rises up into the atmosphere where it cools off and becomes a cloud during what process?
What is condensation?
200

Which process results in the formation of water on the outside of a cold glass of iced tea on a warm day?

What is condensation?

200
What type of cloud is usually made of ice crystals?
What are cirrus clouds?
300
When clouds get heavy from water and falls back to the earth it's called.
What is precipitation?
300

Which two gases, when released into the atmosphere, are believed to contribute most to global warming?

What is methane and carbon dioxide?

300
A fluffy white cloud is usually called this.
What is cumulus?
300
ICE
What is an example of a solid state of water?
300
Where on earth is most water located?
What is the ocean?
400
The process of changing water to a gas is called.
What is evaporation?
400

Which set of Earth components is arranged in order from solid to liquid to gas?

What is lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere

400
What does water have to do to form a cloud?
What is condense?
400
solid, liquid, gas
What are the three states of water?
400
The average condition of the atmosphere over a period of time is called.
What is climate?
500
sleet, hail, snow, rain
What are the 4 types of precipitation?
500
On a weather map, cold fronts are indicated by what?
What is blue teeth or flags?
500
cirrus, stratus, cumulus
What are the 3 main types of clouds?
500
Water vapor is an example of what state of water?
What is gas?
500
If a cup of ice sits in the sun and melts, what change in the state of water will happen next?
What is evaporation?
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