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Water Cycle
Clouds
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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.
What is weather?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100

Usually brings fair weather.

What is high pressure?

200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas call 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
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200

This type of system brings storms because of the rotation of the air building up clouds.

What is low pressure system?

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

Strong storms can occur with this front.

What is a cold front?

300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300

The air that follows behind fronts.

What are air masses?

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

The clouds that exist at one of the highest points in the atomsphere.

What are stratus clouds?

400

Sheets of gray clouds form with this front moving in.

What is a warm front?

400
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
500
Water that is found underground/
What is groundwater?
500
Cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorm clouds?
500

This pressure system acts like a fan and typically brings fair weather.

What is a high pressure system?

500
A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
A funnel shaped windstrom that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?