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?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
Precipitation in the form of ice flakes.
What is Snow?
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?
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
Balls or irregular lumps of ice that fall from clouds.
What is Hail?
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 direction
What is a wind vane?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
The area of central USA that features many tornadoes.
What is Tornado Alley?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
A spectrum of light that appears when the Sun shines onto water droplets in the air.
What is a rainbow
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
Breeze and gale are common terms used to describe the speed of what.
What is Wind?