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Water
Water Cycle
Types of Weather
Measuring Weather
Climate or Weather?
100
Electricity, transportation, drinking, cleaning, and farming.
What are a few ways in which water is used?
100
No, it is never-ending.
Does the water cycle ever stop?
100
Severe snow storm
What is a blizzard?
100
Measures the temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
The type of weather in a certain place for a certain amount of time (typically over a span of 30 years).
What is climate?
200
The nickname for planet Earth.
What is the "Blue Planet"?
200
Water goes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
Storm that forms over the ocean and brings heavy rain and strong winds
What is a hurricane?
200
Measure wind speed.
What is a barometer?
200
The type of air outside.
What is weather?
300
The amount of water on Earth.
What does 75% represent?
300
Water cools and forms a cloud
What is condensation?
300
A spinning, funnel-shaped column of air that touches the ground with strong winds.
What is a tornado?
300
Measures wind speed.
What is a anemometer?
300
A blanket of air surrounding Earth and weather is found in the bottom layer.
What is atmosphere?
400
Two types of water
What are freshwater and saltwater?
400
Water turns back into a liquid and falls back to Earth as either rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
Storm with strong winds and a lot of sand or dust.
What is a sandstorm?
400
Measures the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
400
It affects what we wear, the plans we have made, whether we have recess or not, and if we need to prepare for a severe storm.
What are a few ways that weather affects us?
500
One source where we get our drinking water.
What is groundwater?
500
The water cycle.
What is water evaporating into water vapor, cooling into a cloud through condensation, and falling back to Earth as precipitation?
500
Air, temperature, precipitation, and clouds.
What is weather?
500
They help us to predict the type of weather that is coming and we can find them outside.
What is a cloud?
500
A person who measures, predicts, and reads weather.
What is a meteorologist?