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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather vs Climate
Vocabulary
Air and Water Currents
Tornado
Safety and
Weather Tools
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

Conditions of the atmosphere at any given place or time (constantly changing!)


What is weather?
100
Happens during the day when air above the beach is warm and the cooler air over the ocean rushes in 


What is a seabreeze?
100

Measures the air 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

A fast-moving tube of air the flows from west to east high above the U.S.

What is the Jet Stream?
200

Measures wind direction

What is a wind vane?
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

Average weather pattern of a region over a long period of time


What is climate?
300

The unusual warming of water in the Pacific Ocean

What is El nino?
300
Measures the amount of precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
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

Climate zones areas near the equator 

What are tropical regions?
400

The unusual cooling of water in the Pacific Ocean

What is La Nina?
400
Measures air humidity
What is a hygrometer?
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500

Furthest climate zones north and south, generally cold year round, receives little direct sunlight

What are polar regions?
500

A warm ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean that flows north from the equator along the eastern coast of the U.S.

What is the Gulf stream
500
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?