Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Severe Weather
Atmosphere
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 atmosphere at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
The layer of the atmosphere containing life and weather
What is the troposphere?
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
The 2nd layer of the atmosphere, contains ozone
What is the stratosphere?
300
The process of solid water evaporating into a gas without a liquid state
What is sublimation?
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
The transfer of heat energy within a single object
What is convection?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
A form of oxygen gas that blocks harmful UV rays from the sun from reaching the Earth's surface
What is ozone?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
3 things necessary for cloud formation
What are water vapor, a change in temperature, and condensation nuclei?
400
Severe weather warning
What is an alert that severe weather has been spotted on the radar or by a person?
400
A winter storm consisting of high winds and a large volume of snow.
What is a blizzard?
400
The third and coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is the mesosphere?
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
Isotherm
What is a line drawn on a map to connect places with similar temperature?
500
A transfer of charge from the clouds to the ground
What is lightning?
500
Nitrogen
What is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
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