Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Instruments
Weathering, Erosion & Deposition
Weather Vocabulary
100
Oceans, lakes, rivers, streams and puddles hold water in this stage of the water cycle.
What is stored water?
100
These are the big white puffy clouds close to the ground and appear to make shapes and pictures.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
This is a scientist who studies the weather and its patterns.
What is a meteorologist?
100
When ice freezes in the cracks of rocks, the rock break into smaller rocks in this process.
What is weathering?
100
This is when liquid water heats up and turns into a vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
This is when stored liquid water heats up and turns to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
These are clouds that are dark and greyish, form low to the ground but extend high into the atmosphere, and produce severe weather.
What are cumulonibus clouds?
200
When this weather instruments points to the direction of the south, it means the wind is blowing from that direction.
What is a wind vane?
200
This is a landslides taking weathered rock from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
This is when water vapor cools down and turns into water droplets or water crystals and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
300
This is when water vapor cools back down, turns into liquid crystals or water droplets, and forms in clouds.
What is condensation?
300
These are clouds that are white and feathery, appear high in the atmosphere, and accompany fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
This weather instrument tells us that the wind is blowing at 20 mph!
What is an anemometer?
300
When this happens, dunes, deltas & glacial moraines are formed.
What is deposition.
300
This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
400
This is when water droplets get too heavy for clouds and are pulled back down to the Earth by gravity.
What is precipitation?
400
These are clouds that are low to the ground, have a white/greyish color, are fairly spread out and produce a drizzle or flurry.
What are stratus clouds?
400
this weather instrument tells us that the humidity is at 84%.
What is a hygrometer?
400
Wind, water, ice (glaciers), and gravity cause this process to happen to weathered rock.
What is erosion?
400
This measures when air pressure is low (moist, damp weather) & high (dry & clear).
What is a barometer?
500
This can take the form of clouds, fog (vapor), rain, snow & hail.
What is water?
500
These are the clouds that collect water vapor, get larger, and usually mean a rain shower in the not so distant future.
What are cumulus clouds?
500
This weather instrument tells us that the air pressure is rising to high, which means a beautiful weekend is coming up!
What is a barometer?
500
Freezing, thawing, & plant growth causes this to happen to big rocks.
What is weathering?
500
This is an area where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
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