Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Facts
Thunderstorms
Tropical Storms
100
The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The condition of the air around us at any given moment.
What is weather?
100
A funnel cloud that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
The strongest storm found in the tropics, with heavy rain and winds of 75 mph or greater.
What is a hurricane?
200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
200
A scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
A strong electrical discharge of positive and negative charges in the air.
What is lightning?
200
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
300
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
The layer of air, water, and particles around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
300
A rapid rise in the level of water during a slow-moving thunderstorm.
What is a flash flood?
300
The six months of rain that certain areas of the tropics receive.
What is the monsoon?
400
The part of the water cycle where tiny drops of water collect into large enough droplets to fall to the ground as; rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
A cloud on the ground.
What is fog?
400
Predicting the weather.
What is forecasting?
400
Balls of ice that fall from clouds during thunderstorms.
What is hail?
400
A hurricane that occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean.
What is a typhoon?
500
Water that is found underground.
What is groundwater?
500
Cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorm clouds?
500
The average daily or seasonal weather patterns of a region.
What is climate?
500
A tornado over a large body of water.
What is a waterspout?
500
A coastal flood caused by rising ocean water during a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
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