The Water Cycle
Clouds
Atmosphere
Air Pressure and Wind
WILD
100
The path that water follows as it leaves the earth, goes into the air and returns to earth.
What is the water cycle?
100
These clouds are large and puffy.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The layer of atmosphere where weather happens.
What is the trophoshere?
100
Moving air.
What is wind?
100
The condition of the atmosphere including wind, temperature, clouds, pressure and moisture (water).
What is weather?
200
The stage of the cycle when water is lifted into the air by the sun's heat.
What is evaporation?
200
These clouds are thin and wispy.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
This layer is also referred to as the "ozone layer".
What is the stratosphere?
200
This causes air to move.
What is a change in air pressure?
200
A person who studies, predicts, and forecasts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
Water in the form of gas.
What is water vapor?
300
These clouds form in layers.
What are stratus clouds?
300
The job of the ozone layer is to protect us from this.
What is the sun's harmful rays?
300
Air pressure is measured with this.
What is a barometer?
300
Where one air mass meets another.
What is a front?
400
The stage of the cycle when clouds become too heavy and rain or snow fall from the sky.
What is precipitation?
400
When these clouds grow tall and dark, a thunderstorm is coming.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
Layers of air that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
The weight of the air flowing around and pushing against the earth.
What is air pressure?
400
Weather patterns for a certain area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
The stage of the cycle when water droplets condense to form a cloud.
What is condensation?
500
Fog is this type of cloud.
What is a stratus cloud?
500
The layers of the atmosphere in order from closest to Earth to farthest away.
What is trophosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere.
500
Colder air is ________ than warmer air.
What is heavier?
500
Molecules are spread out and the barometer falls and often means clouds and rain in this pressure system.
What is low pressure?
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