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Clouds
Weather Instruments
Water, Water Everywhere
Water Cycle
Atmosphere
100

These clouds are puffy and look like giant cotton balls. 

What is a cumulus cloud?

100
This instrument is used to measure the amount of rain that falls.
What is a rain guage?
100
About 75% of this covers the earth's surface. 

What is water?

100

The passage of water vapor from a plant to the atmosphere.

What is transpiration?
100

This layer of the atmosphere is what people, plants, animals and most weather resides in. 

What is the troposphere?

200

These clouds are flat, gray clouds. Their name means layer in Latin.

What are stratus clouds?

200

This weather instrument measures the temperature of the air outside.

What is a thermometer?

200

Only 3% of this particular substance is available for human, animal and plant use. 

What is fresh water?

200
The constant circulation of water between atmosphere, land, and sea through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and percolation through soils and rocks.
What is the water cycle?
200

It protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet rays and is located in the stratosphere.

What is the ozone layer?

300

Dark, towering clouds that bring heavy rain, lightning, thunder, and often times hail.

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

300
This weather instrument measures air pressure (or the weight of air).
What is a barometer?
300

Ice cubes, snowflakes, glaciers and icicles are in this particular state. 

What is water in a solid state? 

300
The process of water changing from liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
300

It is this layer of the thermosphere holds the northern lights.

What is the ionosphere?

400

These thin,wispy clouds are usually associated with fair weather. They are found high in the sky and may mean a change of weather is approaching.

What are cirrus clouds?

400
An instrument that is used to measure the direction that the wind is blowing.
What is a wind or weather vane?
400

Water in gaseous form.

What is water vapor?

400
The process of snow and ice changing into water vapor in the air without first melting into water.
What is sublimation?
400

This layer is often called the "final frontier" because just beyond it, is the dark void of outer space. 

What is the exosphere?
500

These clouds form in mountainous regions and are sometimes thougt to be UFO's because of their "flying saucer" shape.

What are lenticular clouds?

500
An instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
500

A large body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater.

What is an aquifer?

500

The cooling of water in the atmosphere changing gas to a liquid. 

What is condensation?

500

This layer of the atmosphere protects the earth from meteorites and space junk. 

What is the mesosphere?