Weather

Water Cycle/Wind

100

Nature’s way of recycling water.

What is the water cycle?

200

The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor

What is evaporation?

300

water falling down as snow, rain, or hail

precipitation

400

The process of water vapor turning into water droplets

What is condensation?

500

where does wind come from?

the sun warms the land, hot air rises, cool air rushes in to take its place as wind

Clouds

100

Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them

What are stratus clouds?

200

White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds

What are cumulus clouds?

300

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?

400

what are clouds made up of?

water vapor

500

Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

Weather Vocabulary

100

what are rainbows a symbol of?

God's promise to never flood the earth again

200

Scientists who study weather

Who are meteorologists?

300

type of climate- hot and rainy

tropical

400

type of climate- hot and dry

desert

500

The weather of a place over a long time

What is climate?

Stormy Weather

100

your favorite season

summer, spring, winter, fall

200

Yakima's climate

temperate

300

what was the ice age?

period of time after the flood where the earth got very cold except at the equator

400

true or false, most of our earth's water is salt water

true

500

why is the equator hotter than the rest of earth?

its always tilted toward the sun