🌧️ Water Cycle & States of Matter
It’s the process where liquid water turns into water vapor and rises into the air.
What is evaporation?
Changing shapes and heights of these in the sky help scientists guess if a storm is coming.
What are clouds?
This weather pattern occurs when temperature regularly changes throughout the year.
What are seasons?
This is what you expect (average weather over many years) in a place.
What is climate?
This type of intense swirling storm with very strong winds can destroy buildings.
What is a tornado?
This forms when water vapor cools and collects into tiny droplets high in the sky.
What are clouds?
This blows air and weather systems toward a region, helping forecast conditions.
What is wind?
Students compare daily temperatures from different snowy towns to find the best spot for this.
What is building a snow fort?
Weather patterns that occur over long time periods help define one of these.
What is climate zone?
A huge tropical storm with very strong winds and heavy rain is called this.
What is a hurricane?
The stage of the water cycle when water vapor becomes liquid again.
What is condensation?
The name for short-term conditions like temperature and rain at a specific time and place.
What is weather?
During this season, daylight hours tend to be longest and temperatures often warmest.
What is summer?
This climate type is hot and wet most of the year.
What is tropical?
Students design a solution to help this thing stay standing when strong winds blow.
What is a house (wind-proof house)?
Water in this form falls from the sky as rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Scientists use these observations of clouds, wind, temperature, and precipitation to make this.
What is a weather prediction?
This season usually brings falling leaves and cooler weather after summer.
This climate type is cold and often covered in ice and snow.
What is polar?
This type of storm forms over dry land and lifts dust high into the air.
What is a dust storm?
When water gets cold enough to turn into ice, it changes from a liquid to this state of matter.
What is a solid?
This instrument measures the warmth or coldness of the air.
The regular cycle of seasons happens because Earth does this around the Sun.
What is orbiting the sun?
Students learn about these patterns by coloring and combining these on maps of the world.
When engineers test a design and then make it better based on what went wrong, they are doing this.
What is improving (or redesigning) a design?