Vocabulary
Instruments
Water Cycle
Clouds
Severe Weather
100
The condition of how hot or cold the air is at a given time.
What is temperature?
100
An intrument that measures the amount of rainfall at a given time.
What is a rain gauge?
100
Water changing form and cycling between Earth's surface and the air and back again.
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Cumulus, Cirrus, and Stratus are the three basic types of these.
What are clouds?
100
A severe storm with lightning, thunder, heavy rain and strong winds.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
The condition of how fast the wind is moving.
What is wind speed?
200
An instrument that measures how hot or cold it is inside or outside.
What is a thermometer?
200
Liquid water on Earth becoming a gas.
What is Evaporation?
200
Puffy, lumpy-looking clouds that often have a flat bottom (when they are dark they usually bring rain, when they are white they do not bring rain).
What is Cumulus?
200
A small, funnel-shaped cloud that comes down from a storm cloud with winds spinning at very high speeds.
What is a tornado?
300
The condition determined by where the wind is coming from.
What is wind direction?
300
An instrument used to measure the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
300
This happens in the air as water vapor changes back to droplets of water.
What is Condensation?
300
High, thin, and wispy clouds that are mostly formed of ice crystals. These cluds are most often associated with fair weather.
What is Cirrus?
300
A large storm that forms over warm ocean water with very stong winds that blow in a circulur pattern around the "eye" of hte storm.
What is a hurricane?
400
The condition of the type of water falling to Earth from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
400
An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
This occurs after condensation allowing for the forming of clouds, any form of water that falls from the clouds.
What is Precipitation?
400
Layers of clouds that spread out covering a large area. These clouds are often lower in the sky.
What is Stratus?
400
During this type of severe weather you should find a safe place away from windows.
What is a tornado?
500
Three types of severe weather include.
What are thunderstorms, tornados, and hurricanes?
500
An instrument used to show the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
500
If precipitation falls on lnad surfaces, it attmepts to return to the ocean or lakes.
What is Runoff?
500
These form when water vapor in the air rises, cools and condenses, forming the water droplets that make them up.
What are clouds?
500
During this type of storm you should board up your windows in your house, stay away from windows and move further inland if you are on the coast.
What is a hurricane?
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