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The Water Cycle
Weather Instruments
Weather Maps
Clouds
100
The name for when water from lakes and rivers is heated by the sun and rise.
What is evaporation?
100
the name of the weather instrument we made in class.
What is a cup anemometer?
100
The name for a front that stops moving.
What is a stationary front?
100
a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.
What is a cloud?
200
When water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
200
What a cup anemometer measures.
What is wind speed?
200
The name of the weather map symbol that has a blue line with blue triangles on it.
What is cold front?
200
The name of puffy, cotton like clouds.
What is cumulus?
300
The name for when the clouds get too heavy and rain starts to fall.
What is precipitation?
300
The name of the weather instrument that measures how much it has rained over a specific period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
300
The name of the weather map symbol that has a red line with red half circles on one side.
What is a warm front?
300
The type of cloud that means rain when it's warm, and snow when it's cold.
What is stratus?
400
the 3 states of water.
What is solid, gas, and liquid?
400
The name of the weather instrument that shows the direction the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
400
The name of the weather map symbol that has both blue triangles and red half circles.
What is a stationary front?
400
Thin, wispy clouds that are high in the sky.
What is cirrus?
500
The name for where ground water is stored after it rains.
What is water table?
500
The name for turning energy from the wind into a useful form of energy.
What is wind power?
500
A scientist who studies weather and climate.
What is a meteorologist?
500
what we call clouds that touch the ground.
What is fog?