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The Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Weather
Weather
100
The part of the cycle where liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
A large body of air.
What is an air mass?
100
This instrument measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
A fast-spinning wind that stretches from the clouds to the ground.
What is a tornado?
200
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud
What is condensation?
200
Dark gray clouds that usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
200
A cold air mass moves under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
200
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
A large tropical storm that forms over water.
What is a hurricane?
300
The part of the water cycle where tiny drops of water collect into large enough droplets to fall to the ground as; rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
300
Wispy, white clouds made of fine ice crystals. Usually indicate cool, fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
A warm air mass slowly moves over cold air.
What is a warm front?
300
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is a anemometer?
300
The center of a hurricane that is calm.
What is the eye?
400
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
400
These clouds bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
When air above the sea is cooler than the land and creates a cool breeze.
What is a sea breeze?
400
When the air above the land is cooler than the sea, a breeze forms.
What is a land breeze?
400
Falling rain passing through a layer of freezing air.
What is sleet?
500
The water that does not soak into the ground to be used by the plants.
What is runoff?
500
Stratus clouds develop into these kinds of clouds, which bring light rain or snow showers.
What are nimbostratus clouds?
500
The area on the down wind side of a mountain with less rain and clouds.
What is a rainshadow?
500
A breeze that moves from land to sea.
What is a land breeze?
500
Water vapor in clouds that turns directly into ice.
What is snow?