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100

The continual movement of water between Earth and the atmosphere. It also gets its energy from the sun.

What is the water cycle?

100

Water that soaks underground.

What is groundwater?

100

Describes how warm or cool the air is.

What is temperature?

100

The condition of outside air or atmosphere at a particular time and place.

What is weather?

100

Clouds are classified according to these two factors.

What is their shape and height?

200

Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere.

What is precipitation?

200

This happens to precipitation, especially rain, once it falls to the ground.

What is runoff?

200

Name the tool that measures temperature and name the tool that measures air pressure.

What is a thermometer and a barometer?

200

The weather patterns of a region over a long period of time.

What is climate?

200

The three main types of cloud shapes.

What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus?

300

The process when a liquid changes into a gas or water vapor.

What is evaporation?

300

These form as a result of condensation.

What are clouds?

300

The amount of air pushing down on the Earth's surface.

What is air pressure?

300

A scientist who predicts the weather.

Who is a meteorologist?

300

A boundary between two different air masses.

What is a front?

400

The process when a gas or water vapor changes into a liquid.

What is condensation?

400

The two types of condensation when no clouds are formed.

What are dew and frost?

400

The level of moisture present in the air.

What is humidity?

400

A scientist who looks at weather patterns over long periods of time.

Who is a climatologist?

400

The number of types of fronts.

What is four?

500

Name the four forms of precipitation.

What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?

500

The release of water from plants.

What is transpiration?

500

The layer of Earth's atmosphere closest to the surface.

What is the troposphere?

500

The three major climate zones that the Earth is divided into.

What is polar, temperate, and tropical?

500

Name the different types of fronts.

What are cold, warm, occluded, and stationary fronts?

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