Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Instruments
Safety and
Trivia
Safety and
Trivia
100
What is the driving force of the Earth's water cycle?
The sun
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
What instrument is used to measure air pressure?
What is a barometer
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
What tool is this?
Sling Psychrometer
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
What tool is this and what does it measure?
Anemometer, it measures wind SPEED
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
What tool is this and what does it measure?
Rain guage, it measures how much rain has fallen.
500
Water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, freezing rain, sleet, or hail
Precipitation
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
A front formed when a warm air mass slides up and over a cold air mass
Warm Front
500
What tool do meteorologists use to collect weather data. (It circles the Earth)
Satellite