Water Cycle
Instruments
Synoptic Maps
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The process of changing from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
100
A thermometer measures this
What is temperature?
100
A large L with a circle on a map indicates this.
What is a low pressure system?
100
the name of a scientist that predicts the weather
What is a meteorologist?
100
all snowflakes have this in common
What is six sides?
200
The process of changing from a gas back to a liquid
What is condensation?
200
Used to measure the amount of rain from a storm.
What is a rain gauge?
200
When you see a blue line with triangles moving on a map this indicates what?
What is a cold front?
200
the gas that surrounds the Earth (and other planets and stars)
What is the atmosphere?
200
an extremely destructive funnel-shaped rotating column of air that passes in a narrow path over land
What is a tornado?
300
Hail, rain, sleet, snow, and freezing rain are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
300
A barometer measures this.
What is air pressure?
300
Before a storm, this happens to the barometric pressure of an area
What is the barometric pressure decreases?
300
rain that falls as liquid but turns to ice on contact with a freezing object or surface to form smooth ice
What is freezing rain?
300
a low-pressure system with wind speeds over 119 kilometers per hour that forms over the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
400
The main source of energy that causes changes in the water on earth.
What is the sun?
400
This instrument measures the relative humidity in the air.
What is a psychrometer?
400
High pressure means there will be...
What is happy (fair) weather!
400
precipitation, in the form of large balls of ice, which forms in layers caused when raindrops are forced up and down through colder then warmer air layers found in thunderstorms
What is hail?
400
the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
500
Choice: Sing the water cycle song in front of the class OR explain the how the water cycle works, including evaporation, condensation, and precipitation in your answer.
What is "Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation on my head! Accumulation, water cycle, then we start all over again!"
500
These are used to predict the weather today.
What are computers and scientific equipment?
500
A low pressure storm indicates
What is lousy weather!
500
forms as falling rain then passes through a freezing layer of air forming hard, clear, tiny ice pellets. (freezes in mid air)
What is sleet?
500
Explain why water on Earth can change forms but the amount of water on Earth will never change.
Because water is constantly moving through the water cycle. It can evaporate into a gas and then turn back into a liquid and fall back to Earth, but it is never created or destroyed.
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