Water Cycle
The process where water changes from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
White, fluffy clouds that look like cotton balls and mean fair weather.
What is Cumulus?
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The movement of air.
What is wind?
A person who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
The process when water vapor cools and becomes liquid again.
What is condensation?
Gray clouds that cover the sky and bring steady rain or snow.
What is Stratus?
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The type of front that brings cold air and stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
The safest place to go during a tornado.
What is a basement or interior room?
The part of the water cycle when water falls from clouds as rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Tall, towering clouds that can bring thunderstorms.
What is Cumulonimbus.
A tool that measures wind speed.
What is a anemometer?
The type of front that brings warm, humid air and light rain.
What is a warm front?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
The process where plants release water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration?
Freezing rain.
What is sleet?
A tool that measures rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
A large, swirling storm that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth’s surface.
What is the water cycle?
The type of precipitation that forms when water vapor freezes into ice crystals before falling.
What is snow?
A tool that measures the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
A rapidly spinning column of air that touches both the cloud and the ground.
What is a tornado?
The average weather in a place over a long time.
What is climate?