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Weather
Water Cycle
Weather Tools
100
The sun heats up the water and turns from a liquid to gas.
What is Evaporation?
100
I measure temperature
What is a Thermometer?
200
I turn from a gas to a liquid. If you leave a cold drink out on a hot summer day, this will happen.
What is Condensation
200
I measure humidity
What is a Hygrometer?
300
So much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore.
What is Precipitation?
300
I collect rain and funnel it into a rain measurement device
What is a Rain Gauge?
400
When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land.
What is Runoff
400
I measure atmospheric pressure
What is a Barometer?
500
How the atmosphere "behaves" over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
What is the constant circulation of water from the atmosphere to the land and the oceans, and back again
What is the Water Cycle?
500
I am a tool used to measure wind
What is an Anemometer