Water Cycle
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas, caused by heat.
What is EVAPORATION?
Wispy, feather-like clouds that bring fair weather.
What are CIRRUS CLOUDS?
What is a THERMOMETER?
The four types of precipitation.
What is RAIN, SNOW, SLEET, and HAIL?
The passage of water vapor from a plant to the atmosphere.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
The cooling of water in the atmosphere; changing a gas to a liquid. This causes clouds to form.
What is CONDENSATION?
Gray, blanket-like clouds that stretch across the sky and bring steady drizzle or long periods of precipitation.
Weather instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall or precipitation.
Frozen precipitation melts in warm air and reaches the surface.
Weather instrument used to measure the air pressure.
What is a BAROMETER?
Precipitation collects back in the oceans, lakes, ponds, and streams.
What are CUMULUS CLOUDS?
Weather instrument used to measure the amount of water vapor in the air or the humidity.
Frozen precipitation melts in warm air and then refreezes before reaching the surface.
What is SLEET?
Warm ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean that brings warmer water and temperatures to the East coast.
What is the GULF STREAM?
Rainfall that is not absorbed by the soil and flows over the land to a larger body of water.
What is RUNOFF?
Stratus clouds that form low to the ground.
What is FOG?
What is a WIND VANE? (Sometimes called a weather vane)
Frozen precipitation falls through cold air and reaches the surface. No melting occurs.
What is SNOW?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
Water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
Dark clouds that stack vertically and bring storms and severe weather.
What are CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS?
What is an ANEMOMETER?
Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is HAIL?
Air current in the upper atmosphere that flows from WEST to EAST.