Vocabulary
Water Cycle
Clouds
Climate
Did You Know?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is 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 is stratus clouds?
100
Define climate
What is the temperature of a place over a long period of time?
100
The average weather condition of a region year after year is called?
What is climate?
200
Scientists who study weather
What is meteorologists?
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 is cumulus clouds?
200
What determines where you live?
What is the climate?
200
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of a building or a room with no windows?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What is cirrus clouds?
300
What measures temperature?
What is thermometer?
300
This depends on what you wear?
What is weather?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
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
How many climate zones does the Earth have?
What is 6 climate zones?
400
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is he Fujita scale (F-scale)?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
500
What is one thing that weather and climate have in common?
What is both deal with temperature?
500
What tracks storms on the move?
What is radar?
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