Weather
Water Cycle
Patterns
This and That
Vocabulary
100
Once Meteorologists know when and where a hurricane is going to take place, this is the other important information they need to know.
What is the wind speed and direction?
100
These are all of the stages of the water cycle.
What is the sun, precipitation, runoff, collection, ground water, percolation, transpiration, evaporation, and condensation?
100
If you saw a new moon tonight, this is approximately how many days it would take before you saw that phase happen again.
What is 28 days?
100
This provides the energy that causes winds.
What is the sun?
100
This is the water that did not get absorbed into the soil, did not get evaporated, and therefore made its way to a collection of water.
What is runoff?
200
These are the factors that you have to look at to determine if it might snow?
What is the chance of precipitation, and the high/low temperature?
200
This is the process when cooling of air causes water vapor to change to a liquid?
What is condensation?
200
This is caused by the moon's gravitational pull on Earth.
What are high and low tides?
200
These are the 4 types of precipitation and 2 of their symbols that are used on a weather map.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail? symbols are: rain- cloud with rain snow - snowflake
200
This is the advancing mass of cold air that is replacing warm air.
What is a cold front?
300
This term would describe weather that has dropped from 80 degrees to 50 degrees.
What is decreasing?
300
This is evaporation.
What is water changing from a liquid to a gas?
300
This explains what creates a shadow.
What is an object that blocks light waves from the sun?
300
These are the names of the moon phases in order starting with new moon.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, last quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, first quarter, and waning crescent.
300
This is what we were creating by logging the moon phase everyday for the entire month.
What is a lunar calendar?
400
This is Earth facing the sun.
What is day time?
400
This is the process when clouds form, from the gas turning into invisible water droplets.
What is condensation?
400
The causes the 4 seasons to happen.
What is the Earth's tilt?
400
This is when a shadow is at its longest (tallest) point.
What is the sun on the farthest east or west side?
400
This is the process after percolation has taken place.
What is ground water?
500
This takes the Earth 365 days to travel around the sun.
What is one revolution?
500
This is the process where water seeps down into the soil.
What is percolation?
500
These are the moon phases you would see if you looked at the moon when it was a new moon and every 7 days for the rest of the month.
What is new moon, last quarter, full moon, first quarter, back to new moon.
500
This is the direction that the sun rises in?
What is East?
500
This is the tool used to measure the moisture (humidity) in the air.
What is hygrometer?
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