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Water Cycle!
Name those Clouds
Vocabulary
Weather Tools
Other
100

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

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

What is known as the weight of air of any one spot?

Air Pressure
200

The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas call water vapor.

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

Give an example of an extreme weather.

Hurricane (Typhoon)

Tornado

Blizzard

Thunderstorms

300

The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.

Condensation?

300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
300

What forms of water fall from the sky during precipitation BESIDES rain?

sleet

hail

snow

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

What kind of weather has low air pressure?

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!

Thunderstorms, rain, clouds, precipitation!

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.

Precipitation?

400
Rain clouds.
What are 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

A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.

Meteorologists

500

Name all the steps IN ORDER of the water cycle.

Evaporation

Condensation

Precipitation

500
Cumulonimbus clouds.
What are thunderstorm clouds?
500

What kind of weather has high air pressure?

Fair weather (sunny, cirrus clouds)

500

What is the difference between a WIND VANE and ANEMOMETER

Wind Vanes measure the direction of the wind.

Anemometers measure the speed of the wind.

500

What is the difference between hurricanes and tornados?

Tornados: A funnel shaped wind storm that emerges from a thunderstorm.

Hurricanes: A huge slow-moving wind storm that emerges from tropical humid ocean waters.