Water Cycle
Clouds
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100

The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.

What is the Water Cycle?

100

Piled up puffy (popcorn) 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

The weight of the air pushing down at any one spot.

What is air pressure?

200

The part of the water cycle that where the sun changes liquid water into a gas called water vapor.

What is evaporation?

200

A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky because of it's layers. They usually bring fog, or light rain/snow

What are stratus clouds?

200

The average or typical weather in a particular region of the world (Temperate, Tropical, etc)

What is climate?

200

A tool used to show weather patterns and fronts across the country.

What is a weather map?

200
High pressure air rushing toward low pressure air.
What is wind?
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,  named after the Latin word for hair.

What are cirrus clouds?

300

A mixture of gases: 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen

What is the air we breathe?

300

A tool used to measure weather from inside the clouds.

What is a weather balloon?

300

The reason why we have seasons on Earth

Because the earth is tilted 26 degrees on it's axis, creating the different regions

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

Rain clouds are generally what type of cloud?

Nimbus clouds?

400

The layer of air around the earth.

What is the atmosphere?

400
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400

The name of the category 4 hurricane in Louisiana.

What is Ida?

500

Water that is found underground

What is groundwater?

500

What type of cloud usually brings extreme weather like thunderstorms and tornadoes?

Cumulonimbus 

500
The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
500

He invented the thermometer in 1600

Who is Galileo?

500

A funnel shaped windstorm that emerges from a thunderstorm.

What is a tornado?