Solar System
About 75 percent, is covered with water.
What is Earth?
Natures way of recycling water
What is water cycle?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
There is so little atmosphere, the planet’s heat escapes at night.
What is Mercury?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
Has a thick atmosphere that is mostly carbon dioxide with only traces of water vapor.
What is Venus?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
Planet has two small moons
What is Mars?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
Planet has 79 moons and a Great Red Spot
What is Jupiter
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?