Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Instruments
Weather Vocabulary
Wind
100

 Nature's way of recycling water.

What is the water cycle?

100

Puffed up clouds that look like cotton.

What are cumulus clouds?

100

Measures air temperature.

What is a thermometer?

100

The state of the air at a certain time and place.

What is weather?

100

Air in motion.

What is wind?

200
Process of water turning into water vapour.

What is evaporation?

200

Low sheet of cloud.

What are stratus clouds?

200

Measures wind direction.

What is a wind vane?

200

Scientists who study weather.

What are meteorologists?

200

Scale for wind speed.

What is the Beaufort Scale?

300

Amount of water vapour in the air.

What is humidity?

300
High, wispy, feathery-looking clouds.

What are cirrus clouds?

300

Measures wind speed.

What is an anemometer?

300

Moisture that falls from the clouds.

What is precipitation?
300

Generates power from wind.

What is a wind turbine?

400

Process of water turning into water droplets.

What is condensation?

400

Clouds that form at the earth's surface.

What is fog?

400

Measures amount of rainfall.

What is a rain gauge?

400

A prediction of what the weather will be.

What is a forecast?

400

Uses wind energy to do a form of work.

What are windmills?

500

Water that is found underground.

What is groundwater?

500

Tall cloud that usually brings thunder and lightning.

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

500
Measures how much water vapour is in the air.

What is a hygrometer?

500

Weather of a place over a long time.

What is climate?

500

Affect wind has on rocks.

What is erosion?