Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Precipitation
Measuring Weather
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
Precipitation in the form of balls or chunks of ice
What is hail?
100
This tool is used to measure air temperature
What is a thermometer?
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
A cloud on or near the ground
What is fog?
200
One of the two tools used to measure precipitation
What is a rain gauge or a snow gauge?
300
This makes planet Earth different from our solar systems other planets?
What is water?
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
Water that falls from the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
300
If the air pressure is rising, it usually means ________
What is fair weather is coming?
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
This forms when raindrops freeze
What is snow?
400
Weather tools can measure two properties of wind
What is direction and speed?
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
Dark cumulus clouds often produce this
What is hail?
500
The weight of the atmosphere pressing in all directions at a certain place
What is air pressure?
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