Water Cycle
Clouds
Atmosphere Layers
Tools/Vocab.
Mixed Bag
100
What is the energy force of the water cycle?
What is the sun?
100
These clouds look like puffy cotton balls and form on sunny days.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The layer closest to the earth
What is the troposphere?
100
This instrument measures the temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
What should a person do when a tornado warning is given?
Immediately take cover in a safe location, such as a basement.
200
When water evaporates, it becomes water vapor. What happens when water vapor condenses in the air?
They form clouds.
200
This type of cloud usually brings heavy rain.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
200
Name all four layers of the atmosphere in order from lowest to highest.
Troposphere Stratosphere Mesosphere Thermosphere
200
This tool measures precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
200
The greater the water vapor in the air, the greater the ________________.
What is humidity?
300
rain, snow, sleet & hail are examples of
What is precipitation?
300
These types of clouds are made of ice crystals and form at high altitudes. (They look like whispy horse tails.)
What are cirrus clouds?
300
This layer contains the Ozone Layer.
What is the stratosphere?
300
This tool measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300
Warm air slides over cold air Layers of clouds form Brings a light steady rain This describes a....
What is a warm front?
400
A gas turning into a liquid
What is condensation?
400
These clouds are low and gray.
What are stratus clouds?
400
This layer is the coldest layer and most difficult to study
What is the mesosphere?
400
This is the name of a person who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
400
These large _______________ form over both water and land.
What is an air mass?
500
This type of person studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
Type of cloud that forms close to the ground.
What is fog?
500
This layer blends into outer space, and is not part of our four layers
What is the exosphere?
500
This type of gas helps keep Earth warm
What are greenhouse gases?
500
Name at least three changes in weather that can happen?
Temperature Air Pressure Precipitation Wind Speed Wind Direction
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