Water Cycle
Galetown
Amplify Weather Simulation
Unit 5 Definitions
Real World Examples
100

If this is taken away from the water cycle then it would never occur.

What is water?

100

Added this to the their city and experienced more rain because of it.

What is a lake?

100

This unit is called___________.

What is Weather Patterns?

100

the mixture of gases surrounding a planet

atmosphere

100

The cooling of an air parcel causes water vapor in the air parcel to condense and fall as __________.

clue: What kind of weather is created?

What is rain?

200

During evaporation, this causes liquid water to become water vapor when heated to the right temperature.

What is the sun?

200

More surface water plus more sunlight will equal bigger clouds which will cause more ________.

What is rain?

200

The mode in amplify that you can only adjust the sunlight to surface setting and the surface water setting.

a. Regional Weather 1

b. Regional Weather 2

c. None of the above

What is a. Regional Weather 1?

200


the process by which a liquid changes into a gas

evaporation

200

The water cycle occurs over and over again which means it is _________.

What is a pattern?

300

During the process of condensation, heat is transferred from a cloud to the surrounding environment which means the cloud loses this.

What is energy?

300

Another factor that caused more severe storms was the _______ weather.

What is "warm" or "hot"?

300

The mode in amplify that there is the factor of wind that is added to show how rain occurs.

What is Regional Weather 2?

300

A scientist who studies the pattern of weather.

a. meteorologist

b. forensic meteorologist

c. weather meteorologist

d. none of the above

b. forensic meteorologist?

300

Two ingredients needed for a cloud to form.

What is heat (sunlight) and water? 

400

I fall from clouds in various forms. I can be liquid or I can be ice. But if I fall hard then I ain't nothing nice.

What is precipitation?

400

The amount of storms that occurred after the lake was built in Galetown..

What is "three"?

400

an amount of air that moves as a unit

air parcel

400


What is the process called by which a gas changes into a liquid?

condensation

400

A hot air balloon goes higher into the air because it gains more ______.

What is heat?

500

I am the name of the third step in the Water Cycle. What am I?

What is Condensed Liquid Water?

500

Another factor besides the lake and the heat that caused Galetown to have more severe rainstorms.

What is wind?

500

The level of __________________________ to surface determines the temperature of the air parcel and the level of surface water determines the amount of water vapor in the air parcel. 

sunlight

500


conditions such as rain, clouds, and wind at a particular time and place

weather

500

When there is more surface water, more rain can happen because more surface water leads to more ________________ in an air parcel.

a. rain                b. clouds            c.water vapors        d. warmer climate

What is water vapor?