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Seasons
Severe Weather
Weather instruments
The Water Cycle
Erosion/Weathering
100
In Virginia, this is the season when it will most likely snow.
What is winter?
100
This is a long period of time without rain.
What is a drought?
100
This tool is used to measure temperature (how hot or cold something is)
What is a thermometer?
100
When water vapor cools, this happens.
What is condensation?
100
The breaking down of rocks.
What is weathering?
200
This season is the warmest season, and many people visit the beach to go swimming.
What is summer?
200
A severe storm with lightning, thunder, heavy rains and wind.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
This person uses weather instruments to report and track the weather changes daily.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Rain, sleet, snow and hail are types of this.
What is precipitation?
200
The process of moving the broken down rocks (the result of weathering) from one place to another.
What is erosion?
300
This is the season between winter and summer.
What is spring?
300
This occurs with too much precipitation.
What is: flood?
300
This weather instrument will tell you the direction that the wind is moving.
What is a windvane or weathervane?
300
This is caused by heat.
What is evaporation?
300
This is a way to prevent erosion on a hill.
What is planting grass or other plants?
400
This season is after summer, when the weather cools down and leaves fall off of the trees.
What is fall or autumn?
400
A dangerous storm with a funnel-shaped cloud and powerful winds.
What is a tornado?
400
This tool is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anomometer?
400
Tiny drops of water condensing in the sky
What are clouds?
400
When waves wash away the sand on a beach.
What is erosion?
500
This is the order of the seasons that occur every year.
What is winter, spring, summer, fall.
500
A storm occurring near water with very powerful winds and rain.
What is a hurricane?
500
You can tell the air pressure by looking at this tool.
What is a barometer?
500
This is the form of water that you cannot see (it is invisible in the air).
What is water vapor?
500
This is a career in which it would be important to prevent erosion and track the weather.
What is a farmer who plants crops?