Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
A Mix of Everything
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
What does an "H" on a map mean, and what kind of weather are you likely to have?
What is "H" stands for High Pressure, and you are likely to have clear skies, and little wind?
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
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
Why does an occluded front occur, and how does it look
Why an occluded front occurs when a cold front, closely following a warm front, overtakes the warm front? There is a cold front, warm front, that eventually combine into a cold/warm front that is purple
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
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
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
What is a stationary front, and how does it look
What is a cold and warm air mass that meet, but neither moves? Looks like warm and cold front side-by-side
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
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
What is air mass
What is a body of air that has the same temperature and/or humidity throughout?
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
What is a weather front
What is the boundary where different air masses collide?
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