The Water Cycle
Storm Clouds
Clouds
States of Matter
Deforestation, Acid Rain, Global Warming
100
This is when water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
This is the spinning column of warm and cold air in the middle of the cloud.
What is the jet stream?
100
This cloud is high in the sky and made from ice crystals.
What is cirrus
100
This state is what you drink.
What is a liquid?
100
This is caused by air pollution from cars, factories, and farm animals.
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
This is snow, sleet, hail, and freezing rain.
What is precipitation?
200
This is the wind that can cause a tornado to form.
What is wind sheer?
200
This is the cloud that occurs on fair weather days and looks like popcorn.
What is cumulus clouds?
200
This state has no bonds.
What is a gas?
200
This is causing ocean levels to rise around the globe.
What is the Greenhouse Effect (global warming)?
300
This is when water vapor molecules stick together and cool down.
What is condensation?
300
This is the part of the cloud that looks like a blacksmith's tool.
What is the anvil?
300
This is the type of cloud that you would see if there was a water spout.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
300
This is the state where the particles are extremely close together.
What is a solid?
300
What has caused 80% of the globes forests to be cut down.
What is deforestation?
400
This is when water vapor molecules get too heavy and fall towards the ground.
What is precipitation?
400
This is the part of the cloud that is long and flat and is directly opposite the earth.
What is the shelf cloud?
400
This is the type of cloud that you can walk through.
What is a stratus cloud (fog)?
400
This is the process of when a a gas turns to a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
This is turning lakes and rivers acidic and killing plants and animals.
What is acid rain?
500
This is when precipitation gathers and runs off into lakes and rivers.
What is Collection?
500
This is the two things that cause hail to form.
What is the updraft and downdraft?
500
This is the cloud that is responsible for long lasting periods of precipitation.
What is nimbostratus clouds?
500
Sublimation and Deposition
What are the vocabulary words for when a gas changes to a solid, and a solid changes to a gas?
500
This causes the temperature of the earth to rise because of the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
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