Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Tools
Weather Words
Water
100
Collection Place
What is the place where water stays in on the Earth
100
Cirrus
What are thin, wispy clouds high in the atmosphere?
100
thermometer
What is a weather tool that measures temperature?
100
weather
What it is like outside each day (temperature/humidity/precipitation, etc.)?
100
water
What makes up 70-75% of the Earth?
200
Evaporation
What happens when water from the Earth is heated by the sun?
200
Fog
What is the cloud nearest to the Earth?
200
rain gauge
What is a weather tool that measures the amount of rain that falls to the Earth?
200
climate
What is weather over a period of time in a specific location?
200
groundwater
What is water that is under ground?
300
condensation
What is when water vapor turns back into liquid again?
300
Cumulonimbus
What is a rain cloud that is very large, grey and puffy?
300
Anemometer
What is the weather tool that measures the wind speed?
300
meteorologist
What is the scientist who studies the data from weather tools to help predict and forecast weather?
300
snow
What is frozen water that falls from the clouds?
400
Water Cycle
What is the cycle in which water moves from the Earth to the into clouds and back to the Earth again?
400
Cumulus
What is a fair weather cloud that looks like cotton balls piled up on each other?
400
weather vane or wind vane
What is the weather tool that tells the direction that the wind is blowing?
400
water vapor
What is water that is evaporated into a gas?
400
water-cleaning plant
What is a place that cleans water so it is safe for humans to drink?
500
Precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet or hail that returns to the Earth from clouds?
500
Stratus
What are low, blanket-like clouds that are grey and bring rain?
500
Barometer
What is weather tool that measures the air pressure?
500
data
What is information that is collected and analyzed?
500
32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius?
What is the temperature that water freezes?
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