Water Cycle
Water
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The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
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Water freezes at
What is 32 degrees?
100
A person who studies and predicts the weather
What is a meteorologist?
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A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
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In Knoxville, TN, on Tuesday, it is 45 degrees, cloudy with a chance of flurries.
What is weather?
200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas call water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
Water boils at
What is 212 degrees?
200
The average or typical weather over a long time in a particular area.
What is climate?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
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The H or L on a weather map measures the
What is air pressure?
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The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
To measure temperature we use the
What is the Fahrenheit scale?
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The daily temperature, rain or no rain, sun or no sun...etc.
What is weather?
300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
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The first step of the water cycle
What is evaporation?
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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?
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The other scale that the rest of the world uses is
What is the Celsius scale?
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The layer of air around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
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The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
500
Where does most of the world's water for the water cycle come from?
What is the ocean?
500
The gases that surround the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
500
What meteorologists use the help predict the weather
What are weather maps?
500
What a person uses to measure wind direction
What is a wind vane?
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A funnel shaped windstrom that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?