water cycle
What are the 3 phases of water?
Name the cloud that shows a thunderstorm is coming.
Stratonimbus
What does a thermometer do?
What is a flood?
When there is so much rain it makes rivers and lakes overflow and go where water doesn't belong.
What is the atmosphere?
The layers of air around the Earth.
What is evaporation?
It's when the sun heats up the water and it turns into a gas and rises into the sky.
Name the cloud that happens in the high level of the atmosphere and looks wispy like feathers.
Cirrus
Weathervane, wind sock or anemometer.
Name a storm that forms over an ocean with very high winds and lots of rain.
Hurricane, Typhoon, or Cyclone.
What does the word climate mean?
How many seasons a place has or how the weather is over a long period of time.
What is condensation?
What will the weather be if you see lots of cumulus clouds?
sunny or partly sunny
Why is the weather important enough to be on the news?
How does a drought affect humans?
If there is no rain then crops can't grow and people might not have enough food.
What is the equator?
The imaginary line that runs around the middle of the Earth.
How does precipitation happen?
When clouds fill up with too much water then liquid or solid water falls from them.
Describe a stratus cloud.
Blanket or pancake, they cover the whole sky.
If wind is blowing to the East which direction is it coming from?
West.
How are heat waves and droughts connected?
A heatwave can make a drought worse.
In order to be a heatwave it has to be hotter than normal for at least _______ days
5 days
What two things does the water cycle need?
What are clouds made of?
water and dust
Explain how a barometer works and what it tells us about the weather.
It shows the air pressure in the atmosphere. If it low pressure then it will be stormy, high pressure means good weather.
What is a tornado?
Wind that can go up to 300mph and spins around in a funnel. (Remember tornadoes need wide open spaces so we don't usually get them in Vermont!)
What causes wind?
When the sun heats up the Earth unevenly this causes hot and cold air to hit each other and causes wind.