Vocabulary
Weather Facts
Water Cycle Facts
Weather Instruments
Free for All
100
What is the air around the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
What is forecast the weather.
What does a meteorologist do?
100
What is 1%.
How much of the Earth's water is useable, fresh water?
100
What is measure temperature.
What does a thermometer measure?
100
One is normal, one is extreme... tornado, etc.
What is the difference between regular and severe weather?
200
What are cirrus, stratus, and cumulus... then describe.
What are the three types of clouds, and what does each one look
200
What is stratus clouds.
If a storm is already occurring, what type of clouds would you see?
200
97% of the water is salt, and in the oceans.
How much water on the Earth is salt water, and where is it found?
200
A rain gauge measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
200
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Draw a picture on the board of the water cycle and label it.
300
What is water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is the definition of precipitation?
300
what is the sun.
What is the energy source that drives the water cycle?
300
What are collection, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What are the four steps of the water cycle in order?
300
A barometer measures air pressure in the atmosphere.
What does a barometer measure?
300
What is solid, liquid, and gas.
What are the 3 forms of water?
400
Condensation is water vapor that cools and changes back into a liquid.
What is condensation and give me an example of it.
400
The same type: calm!
If a day is very calm (no wind) and with no or little clouds, what kind of weather would you expect in the next day?
400
a weather vane.
What is the instrument you would use to measure the direction of the air?
400
The movement of water through the plants.
What is transpiration?
500
When a substance changes from a liquid to a gas (vapor).
What is the evaporation?
500
Cirrus clouds predict a storm.
What do cirrus clouds help predict?
500
In a shower on the mirror, on dew on a plant, and on a water glass.
Give me 3 examples of where you would find condensation.
500
Check a forecast and bring appropriate things for your trip!
If you wanted to know if you could go to the zoo, what would you need to do before leaving your house that has to do with weather?
500
Lakes/rivers, oceans, reservoirs, glaciers, etc.
What are three ways water can be stored as it passes through the water cycle?
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