Water Everywhere
How's the Weather?
On The Map
Break it Down
High in the Sky!
100
The three states of matter in which water can exist.
What are Solid, Liquid and Gas?
100
A dark funnel of strong winds that spiral upward. Winds can reach speeds of 300 miles per hour!
What is a Tornado?
100
These are represented by a capital letter H or L on a weather map.
What are High and Low Pressure.
100
The breaking down and wearing away of rock.
What is Weathering?
100
These are made when water vapor condensates.
What are clouds?
200
The process in which liquid water changes to a gas, which is called water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
200
This type of air pressure usually brings clouds and precipitation to an area.
What is Low Pressure?
200
A cloud with the sun peeking out from behind it indicates this type of weather on a weather map.
What is Partly Cloudy.
200
The movement of weathered materials.
What is Erosion?
200
The air around you and above you on Earth.
What is the Atmosphere.
300
The change from water vapor to liquid water.
What is Condensation?
300
Electrical charges that build up when a cold front and a warm front run into one another.
What is Lightning?
300
This type of front is shown by a blue line with triangles on a weather map.
What is A Cold Front.
300
The process in which eroded materials are dropped in a new place.
What is Deposition?
300
Clouds that are puffy and white. These clouds are sometimes called "fair-weather" clouds.
What are Cumulus Clouds?
400
Water that falls to Earth's surface as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is Precipitation?
400
Water vapor in the air that may make your skin feel damp and sticky!
What is Humidity?
400
This is a steady worldwide wind that blows from west to east. It is often shown as a blue or red line on a weather map.
What is The Jet Stream.
400
The three ways in which weathered materials are carried from place to place.
What are Moving Water, Wind and Moving Ice.
400
All weather happens in this layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
500
The change of water from one state to another and its movement from one place to another on Earth.
What is The Water Cycle
500
The weight of air pressing on everything around it.
What is Air Pressure?
500
In general, weather in the United States moves in this direction.
What is West to East?
500
The four ways rocks are broken down or weathered.
What is by Water, Wind, Ice and Plants.
500
These clouds are flat, gray, layered clouds that cover the whole sky. They can bring light rain and drizzle.
What are Stratus Clouds?
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