Water Cycle
What is happening when water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere?
What the atmosphere is like at a given time and place is called?
Weather
What is moving air?
Wind
What is a long-term weather pattern of a place called?
Climate
What is water that is stored underground called?
Groundwater
What tool measures the humidity in the air?
Hygrometer
What is liquid precipitation?
Rain
What is the change from a liquid to a gas?
Evaporation
Who are the scientists who study weather?
Meteorologists
What is the boundary between two air masses called?
Front
How is climate different from weather?
Weather describes what the atmosphere is like at a given time and place while climate is the average weather pattern over a course of many years. (30 years or more)
What is water that cannot soak into the ground and instead flows across Earth's surface?
Runoff
Which clouds form flat layers that cover most of the sky and may signal rain?
Stratus
What is solid precipitation that falls through cold air?
Snow
What is the mixture of gases that surround Earth?
The Atmosphere
What weather instrument measure wind direction?
Weather Vane
Which front forms where a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass?
Warm front
Name the three climate zones.
Temperate, Polar, and Tropical
What is a large, slow-moving mass of ice called?
Glacier
Which clouds are thin, white, and feathery and are signs of fair weather?
Cirrus
What is precipitation that freezes near the ground?
Sleet
What is the change of a gas into a liquid?
Condensation
What tool measures wind speed?
Anemometer
What is a map that uses symbols to show weather data?
Weather map
What type of environment/area is covered by fresh, salt water, or both? Temperatures may be hot and humid.
Swamp
What is a body of rock that stores groundwater?
Aquifer
Which clouds are puffy and white, they may have flat bases, and they can signal fair weather or stormy weather?
Cumulus
What is solid precipitation made of layers of ice?
Hail
What is water that falls from clouds to Earth's surface? (all forms of water)
Precipitation
What tool measures air pressure?
Barometer
What dangerous weather condition has a funnel shape?
Tornado
What type of environment/area is dry with very little rain?
Desert
What tool measures air temperature?
Thermometer
Which clouds stretch from low heights to high heights and produce thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus
What dangerous weather condition is a strong storm that forms over warm ocean water?
Hurricane