Water Cycles and States of Matter
What is fog?
A cloud near the ground.
What is a thunderstorm?
A storm with thunder and lightning, usually with rain.
What is a degree?
A unit of measurement, such as for temperature.
What is a climate?
The weather conditions in an area that are similar year after year.
What is a construction engineer?
A person who designs, plans, and builds structures such as buildings.
What is a cloud made of?
A collection of tiny water droplets that are visible in the air.
What is hail?
Balls of ice that fall from the sky.
What does freezing point mean?
The temperature when water starts to turn from liquid water into solid ice.
What is a temperate climate?
Climate that is cold in the winter and hot during the summer.
What is a dust storm?
A type of windstorm that moves large amounts of dirt and sand.
What is condensation?
The process of a gas changing to a liquid.
Describe or draw what a cumulus cloud looks like.
A type of cloud that is very fluffy, tall, and white.
What is a pattern?
Something that happens again and again and again in a way that can be predicted.
What is a desert climate?
A climate that does not get a lot of rain.
What is a hurricane?
A type of windstorm that starts as a smaller storm over the ocean.
What is evaporation?
The process of a liquid changing to a gas.
Describe or draw what a stratus cloud looks like.
A type of cloud that is long, flat, spread out, and white.
What is a season and what seasons do we have?
A time of year with specific weather that repeats every year and we have fall,winter, spring and summer.
What is a polar climate?
A climate that is cold all year long.
What is a tornado?
A type of windstorm, shaped like a funnel, that happens with little warning.
What are the 3 states of matter?
Gas, Liquid, and Solid.
What is the difference between a cumulus cloud and a cumulonimbus cloud?
A cumulus cloud is a type of cloud that is very fluffy, tall, and white and a cumulonimbus cloud is a group of cumulus clouds that very fluffy, tall, and dark in color. They can also cause a storm.
What is weather and give me 3 examples of type of weather?
Weather is what the air is like in a particular time and place, including things like temperature, wind, and rain. Some examples are snow, rain, thunderstorms, hail, sleet, sunny, tornado, and hurricane.
What is a tropical climate? What is a mild climate?
A tropical climate that is hot all year long.
A mild climate that is warm during the winter and hot during the summer.
What is a natural hazard? List 2 examples of natural hazards.
An event in nature (such as a landslide, earthquake, hurricane, or wildfire) that can be dangerous to living things