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

What is condensation?

500

Water that is found underground

What is groundwater?

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 shows wind direction

What is a wind vane?

400

Measures wind speed

What is an anemometer?

500

The weather of a place over a long time

What is climate?

Wind

100

This wind is located at the Equator 

What is trade winds

200

Winds that travel short distances and change direction.

What is local winds?

300

These winds travel long distances and do not change direction

What is a Global Wind?

400

Local wind that blows from the sea onto land

What is Sea Breeze?

500

Global winds get their curved patterns due to this

What is Coriolis Effect?

Atmosphere

100

How many layers of the atmosphere are there?

What is 5?

200

This layers contains the OZONE

What is the Stratosphere?

300

This layer is where all weather occurs?

What is the Troposphere?

400

This layer is the coldest layer of the atmosphere

What is the Mesosphere?

500

This helps protect against harmful UV rays

What is OZONE layer?