Weather

Water Cycle

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

Amount of water vapor in the air

What is humidity?

400

The process of water vapor turning into water droplets, the water collects in the clouds

What is condensation?

500

The sun's heat and gravity causes this cycle.

What is Hydrologic cycle?

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

Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface

What is fog?

500

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

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

Weather Vocabulary

100

The state of the air at a certain time and place

What is weather?

200

Scientists who study weather

Who are meteorologists?

300

Instrument that measures air pressure

What is a barometer?

400

The amount that air presses or pushes on anything.

What is air pressure?

500

The weather of a place over a long time

What is climate?

Atmosphere

100

The coldest layer and burns up meteroroids

What is mesophere?

200

The layer where planes fly, clouds form, and 75% of the gases

What is troposphere?

300

Ozone layer and weather balloons.

What is the stratpshere?

400

Very hot-reaches 3,600 degrees. ionshpere and exosphere make up this layer

What is the thermosphere?

500

Where outer space begins

What is the exosphere?