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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tools of Weather
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Tool used to measure temperature

What is a thermometer?

200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200

A tool that measures humidity in the air

What is a hygrometer?

300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
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?
300

21% of the air we breathe is what gas

What is oxygen?

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

Type of instrument is used to measure air pressure

What is a barometer?

400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400

One factor that can change air pressure

What is temperature?

400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400

Measures wind speed

What is an anemometer?

500

Four types of precipitation

What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?

500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500

Wind is caused by differences in ________.

What is Air Pressure?

500

Another name for a hurricane

What is a typhoon or cyclone?

500

Instrument that shows wind direction

What is a wind vane?