The Water Cycle
The surface of the ocean warms, causing some liquid water molecules to become gas.
Evaporation
Precipitation usually occurs as ______________.
Rain
A rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of the earth and the bottom of a cloud.
Tornado
In a hurricane, you should:
Find shelter away from outside doors and windows
Climate is the average weather of an area over a ______________ period of time.
Long
Clouds form when water vapor goes through ______________?
Condensation
Reading the weather tells you the ______________, or how warm or cold it will be.
Temperature
A storm that has loud bursts of ______________ and bright flashes of ______________: a ______________.
Thunder, lightning, thunderstorm
In a hailstorm, you should:
Get inside a building or car and stay away from windows and glass doors
There are ______________ types of climate on Earth.
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The energy source driving the water cycle.
The Sun
Generally the weather is ______________ (settled/unsettled) in a low-pressure system.
Unsettled
They form when water droplets begin condensing up in the air.
Clouds
They can help tell you what type of weather may be coming, depending on how dark or fluffy they are, as well as how high up they are in the sky.
Clouds
Temperatures are consistently rising, leading to ice melt and sea level rise.
Warming period
Rain falls on the earth, some flowing over the surface as ______________ and some seeping into the ground to be stored as ______________.
Runoff and groundwater
In a weather report, the humidity tell us...
How wet or dry the air it is
A solid form of precipitation, when balls of ice fall from the sky.
Hailstorm
If caught outside in a thunderstorm, you should:
Avoid high ground, open spaces, metal objects, tall objects (trees), and stay out of the water.
This determines what plants and animals can exist in a region.
Climate
The term used when water evaporates from the leaves of plants.
Transpiration
The person who studies weather.
Meteorologist
This large, swirling storm with strong winds and thunderstorms can cause a lot of damage.
Hurricane
In a tornado, you should:
Go to an inside room with no windows on the lowest floor (closet, basement)
The main factors that affect climate.
The Sun, oceans, winds, land types, clouds, human activity.