Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Convection Currents and Air Pressure
More Weather Words
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
The weather phenomenon that is the result of convection currents
What is wind?
100
The process by which water becomes too heavy for a cloud to hold and it returns to the earth as rain, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor as it is heated
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
Warm air moves in this direction
What is rises?
200
The sun warms this faster than it warms water
What is land?
300
The temperature at which water vapor will condense onto cool surfaces
What is dewpoint?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they can be a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Energy that drives the water cycle
What is solar energy?
300
This type of air tends to sink
What is a cold air?
300
This gets lower as you go higher in the atmosphere (such as when climbing a mountain)
What is temperature?
400
The process of water vapor cooling and turning into water droplets (such as in clouds)
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
An anemometer is used to measure this
What is wind speed?
400
A barometer is an instrument that is used to measure this
What is air pressure or the weight of the air?
400
This geological position affects temperatures- the closer you are to the equator, the hotter the temperatures
What is latitude?
500
Water that falls as precipitation and is absorbed into the ground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The average of the weather of a particular location over a long period of time
What is climate?
500
Areas of different air pressure are represented by these on a weather map
What are fronts?
500
This part of the water cycle is evident when water disappears from a puddle on a warm day
What is evaporation?
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