Water Cycle
Clouds
The Four Elements of Weather
Stormy Weather
Weather Vocabulary
100
The three steps in the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky like a blanket; rain or snow falls from them.
What are stratus clouds?
100
These are the 4 elements of weather.
What are heat (temperature), air pressure, moisture, and wind?
100
Most common type of storm, often with electric sparks that split the air with tremendous CRACKS.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
The level of air closest to the Earth's surface and the air around us in which we live.
What is the atmosphere?
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
This air pressure system rises like invisible mountains. It usually means fair weather and sunny skies.
What is a high pressure system?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
The study of weather
What is meteorology?
300
The process of water returning to earth as either rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
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
This element of weather is created from air movement when heat from the equator is carried up in a circular pattern to the cooler polar regions.
What is the wind?
300
A powerful snowstorm that combines cold air, strong winds and heavy snowfall.
What is a blizzard?
300
The average weather over time in a particular region or area.
What is climate?
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
The wind scale system which measures wind speed on a scale of 0 to 17
What is an the Beaufort Wind Scale?
400
Large, powerful storm that forms over large bodies of water, like the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a hurricane?
400
The level of the atmosphere in which our weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
500
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds.
What are nimbus clouds?
500
These whirling valleys of air pressure signal stormy weather on the way.
What is low pressure air systems?
500
The nickname for the area of the country (which starts at the Gulf of Mexico and travels north) in which most funnel cloud storms occur.
What is Tornado Alley?
500
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind in knots.
What is an anemometer?
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