Water Cycle
When water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
When precipitation falls through mostly warm air as liquid water and freezes when it hits the ground.
What is freezing rain?
What is temperature?
A funnel of air created from hot and cold air pushing against one another.
What is a tornado?
When water in clouds changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
When precipitation falls through warm air as liquid water.
What is rain?
The instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
What is a drought?
When liquid water leaves the clouds as rain, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
When precipitation falls through cold air as frozen water.
What is snow?
What is a hygrometer?
Why are tornadoes and thunderstorms dangerous?
They both have very strong winds and are damaging to humans, home, and nature.
What is the water cycle?
What is when water in earth's atmosphere circulates through the three states of water.
When precipitation falls from clouds through mostly cold air as mostly frozen water.
What is sleet?
A thermometer measures...
What is the temperature of the air?
What are two ways to stay safe during hazardous weather?
Multiple answers.
What is...
Evaporation: Water particles go into the air as water vapor.
Condensation: Water vapor particles join together and turn back into liquid form.
Precipitation: Water collects into drops. The drops become too heavy and fall back to Earth.
How are freezing rain and sleet similar? How are they different?
Answers vary.
How is our seasonal weather different here in Chicago than in Hawaii?
Answers vary.
A disturbance in the atmosphere with a lot of wind and precipitation.
What is a storm?