vocabulary
when water turns into gas
What is evaporation
When water falls as water and temperatures above freezing
What is rain
Big fluffy clouds that are cauliflower shaped and appear when their is nice weather
What is cumulus
When these water droplets get too heavy to stay suspended in the cloud, they fall to Earth as rain.
What is rain in falling
When liquid turns into a solid
What is freezing
When tempuatres are below freezing and is in solid form
What is snow
A flat, layered, and smooth cloud
What is stratus
When the sky is clear or mostly clear overnight, the ground cools, and the warm air radiates away from the ground, up toward the sky. If the ground cools enough,
What is morning dew
when a solid turns into a liquid
What is melting
When the atmosphere is above freezing but by the ground is below freezing and starts off as rain then ends as a solid
What is sleet
High clouds that look like paint strokes
What is a Cirrus
when water vapor, or water in its gaseous form, condenses.
What is fog
When a gas turns into a liquid
What is condensation
When rain falls then air pushes it back up to then, back down over and over again, until it's to big then falls to the ground.
What is hail
Big fluffy clouds that are at low level and bring bad weather such as rain
What is nimbus cloud
When water evaporates from a plant
What is transpiration
Water that freezes when it touches the ground
What is freezing rain
A dense towering vertical cloud and can cause thunder storms
What is cumulonimbus