Water Cycle
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
The layers of the atmosphere
What is Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, exosphere?
The variable that is being observed or measured.
What is dependent variable?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
Where meteors burn up
What is the mesophere?
What is qualitative data?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
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?
Instrument that shows wind speed
What is an anemometer?
What is the stratosphere?
Warm air rising and cool air sinking.
What is convection?
The process of water vapor evaporating from plants
What is transportation?
Water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
Measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
Protects us from ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
What is the ozone layer?
Two tectonic plates moving towards each other
What is convergent boundary
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
Any form of moisture that falls from clouds
What is precipitation?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Contains the largest concentration of gases that support life.
What is the troposphere?
Divergent boundaries form
What is sea floor spreading and volcanos?