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Water
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Water that falls back to Earth, such as rain.
What is precipitation?
100
True or False? Water is a renewable resource?
What is False?
100
Where are polar climates located?
The north and south poles.
100
T/F: Cumulus clouds are rain clouds?
What is False. Cumulonimbus and nimbostratus clouds are storm clouds.
100
A period of NO rainfall.
What is a drought?
200
Weather over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
200
What percent of the Earth's surface is water?
What is 75%?
200
Where are tropical climates located?
Near the equator.
200
What are different types of storms that occur?
What are thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards?
200
The area where two different air masses meet and change the temperature in that area.
What is a front.
300
Process in which liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
Why is it important to CONSERVE water?
Because the water we have is all we have. If we run out there won't be any more.
300
What type of weather will you see in polar climates?
What is Cold/Dry weather?
300
How do clouds form?
Water cools and condenses after it evaporates and forms clouds. The clouds are tiny water droplets.
300
The height above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
The distance away from the equator.
What is latitude?
400
What is the sun's role in the water cycle?
Water evaporates in the suns warmth.
400
What type of weather will you see in tropical climates?
What is hot/wet or dry weather?
400
What causes precipitation to happen? And, what are types of precipitation?
When the water droplets in the clouds get too heavy they fall. Rain, sleet, snow, hail.
400
The process in which water changes back into water in the sky.
What is condensation?
500
A large moving piece of ice on land.
What is a glacier?
500
Explain the water cycle using three vocabulary words.
The sun warms the water which evaporates into water vapor. The water vapor cools and condenses into a cloud. When the water gets heavy enough in the cloud in falls and precipitation falls as rain, snow, sleet, hail.
500
What are four things that effect temperature/climate?
What is elevation, latitude, currents, bodies of water?
500
What causes storms to happen?
Storms happen when fronts collide.
500
A large bubble of air that has similar features.
What is an air mass?