Weather
Water Cycle
Types of Weather
Measurement
200
Moving air is called this.
What is wind?
200
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
200
Heavy precipitation with lightning and thunder.
What is stormy or thunderstorms?
200
This instrument measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
300
Weather changes from day to day and from season to ___.
What is season?
300
Water that returns to the earth from clouds.
What is precipitation?
300
Precipitation in the form of a solid that covers things with a white blanket.
What is snowy?
300
You need this to measure the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
1000
Weather is what the ___ outside is like.
What is air?
1000
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
1000
No clouds or very few clouds.
What is sunny?
1000
This instrument measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
5000
Clouds form when warm air meets ___ air.
What is cooler air?
5000
As water moves through the water cycle, it often changes from one state of matter to another. Name the 3 states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
5000
A very large storm that forms over the oceans.
What is a hurricane?
5000
Scientists who study weather use lots of measurements. These scientists are called ___.
Who are meteorologists?
10000
Temperature is how ___ or ___ it is.
What is hot or cold?
10000
When water goes through the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, it is called this.
What is the water cycle?
10000
A funnel of very fast winds that forms from severe thunderstorms.
What is a tornado?
10000
Temperature is measured in these units. (Today's temperature is 32 ___.)
What is degrees?
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