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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Weather Instruments
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

The state of the air at a certain time and place

What is weather?

100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100

Measures air pressure

What is a barometer?

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
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200

Instrument that 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

The three states of water

What are solid, liquid, and gas?

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

Measures wind speed

What is an anemometer?

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

When cold air bumps into warm air

What is a cold front?

400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400

Measures temperature of the air

What is a thermometer?

500

Water that runs into lakes, streams, rivers, and oceans

What is runoff?

500

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

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

500

The weather of a place over a long period of time

What is climate?

500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?