Show:
The Water Cycle
Clouds
Properties of Weather
Various
Weather Instruments
100
This describes how water moves between Earth's surface and the air.
What is the water cycle?
100
This is formed by billions of tiny water droplets that condensed from the air.
What is a cloud?
100
The the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
100
These are the three states of water.
What are solid, liquid, and gas (water vapor)?
100
This device is used to find wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
200
The process of a liquid changing to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
These are curly, wispy clouds that are very high above the Earth.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
This describes how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
200
The Earth's ________________ is made up of 4 layers.
What is the atmosphere?
200
This is used to measure the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
300
This is the process of a gas becoming a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
These are fluffy, white clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
This is the movement of air over the Earth's surface.
What is wind?
300
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
This device measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
400
Heat from the ________ begins the process of evaporation.
What is the sun?
400
These are clouds that are close to the Earth and whose name is Latin for "layer".
What are stratus clouds?
400
This is the force of air pushing on an area.
What is air pressure?
400
An area where air masses meet and do not mix.
What is a front?
400
This device is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
_________, _________, __________, and __________ are the four forms of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
500
This type of cumulus cloud causes thunderstorms and can often produce large hail.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
The weather that we experience on Earth occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the trophosphere?
500
Solid or liquid water that falls from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
500
This device is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?