Water Cycle
Weather Vocabulary
Fresh Water and Temperature
Clouds & Storms
Weather Tools & Observations
100
This process happens when a puddle gets smaller during the day.
What is evaporation?
100
This weather factor describes how dry or moist the air feels.
What is humidity?
100
Most of Earth's fresh water is found here.
What are ice caps and glaciers?
100
These clouds are gray, low clouds that cover much of the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
100
This symbol shows a warm front.
What is a line with half circles?
200
Dew and raindrops are alike because both result from this process.
What is condensation?
200
This is a large body of air with the same temperature and humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
Less than 1% of Earth's fresh water is this kind of water.
What is surface water?
200
These clouds are a sign that thunderstorms are likely.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
200
To look for a temperature trend during April, you should measure the temperature at this time.
What is at noon every day in April?
300
This is water moving down the side of a mountain.
What is runoff?
300
This is where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
300
If the temperature is below 0°C and there is precipitation, it most likely falls as this.
What is snow?
300
Why do balls of hail have layers?
Each time a ball of hail goes up and down a thundercloud, a layer of ice is added.
300
This day was the most hot and humid on the study guide table.
What is Monday?
400
This is the main source of energy that drives the water cycle.
What is the sun?
400
Air pressure is usually highest in this type of place.
What is the bottom of a valley?
400
A type of precipitation that falls in -3-degree weather
What is snow?
400
A Category 4 hurricane most likely causes this type of damage.
What is extensive damage?
400
These two tools can help verify if a cold front is causing colder weather.
What are a barometer and thermometer?
500
A water molecule spends the shortest amount of time here during the water cycle.
What is the atmosphere?
500
A cool, local wind that blows from a large body of water onto land during the day.
What is a Sea Breeze?
500
If two days have the same hot temperature, the day with higher humidity would feel more like this.
What is hot and humid?
500
This is the correct order when a hurricane forms.
What is thunderstorm near the western coast of Africa -> tropical depression -> tropical storm -> hurricane?
500
What is the best way to verify weather predictions for the next few days?
Go online to determine the temperature and air pressure for the past 5 days.
600
This statement about the atmosphere is correct.
"The atmosphere is about 600 km thick"
600
EXTRA:
a local wind that blows from land to sea
Land Breeze