The Water Cycle Vocabulary
Water that falls to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
True or False: The Earth's supply never runs out of water because of the water cycle.
True.
What type of weather can you expect if you see cumulus clouds?
Fair, sunny weather! It will be a nice day!
A person who studies the weather and uses tools to gather measurements and data about the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
A diagram showing the flow of energy in a particular ecosystem.
What is a food web?
DOUBLE ALL YOUR POINTS!
Water that falls to the Earth and collects in oceans, ponds, and lakes.
What is collection?
QUADRUPLE ROUND!!!!
Four types of precipitation.
What is hail, sleet, snow, and rain?
Type of cloud that is puffy and white on sunny days with some grey at the bottom. They form low to the ground.
What is cumulus?
A pole with four arms showing which direction the wind is blowing (North, East, South, or West).
What is a weather/wind vane?
Organisms that eat other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
Clouds are formed from water vapor.
What is condensation?
This provides energy to evaporate water from the Earth's surface.
What is the sun?
DOUBLE OR LOSE ALL!!!
Type of cloud that is grey and looks like a blanket covering the sky. They appear very low in the sky.
What is stratus?
TRPIPLE ROUND!!!!
Name three conditions of weather.
What is temperature, wind, and precipitation?
Organisms that produce their own food.
What is a producer?
The process of changing water to a gas.
What is evaporation?
TRPIPLE ROUND!!!!!
The 3 processes in the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Type of cloud that appears white and wispy. They form from falling ice crystals and appear high in the sky.
What is cirrus?
Pole with four arms with cups on the ends. This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
An organism that feeds on and breaks down plant and animal matter.
What is a decomposer?
DOUBLE ROUND!!!
Precipitation that did not get absorbed into the soil.
What is runoff?
TRIPLE POINTS OR LOSE ALL!!!
The amount of water vapor present in the air.
What is humidity?
Mist and fog are examples of this cloud.
What is stratus?
What is climate?
This is a QUADRUPLE ROUND, BUT YOU LOSE NOTHING IF YOU DON'T GET IT! Break this word down using morphology!
Non-living factors in an environment.
What is abiotic?