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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
100
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
100
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
100
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
200
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
300
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
300
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
400
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
400
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?