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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Instruments
Air
Stormy Weather
100
Liquid or solid water falling from clouds.
What is precipitation?
100
Flat layer of gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky. They tell that rain, drizzle, or flurries are likely to come.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Measures the temperature of air or water.
What is a thermometer?
100
The three main ingredients of weather.
What are air, water, and heat?
100
The most common type of storm.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
The four types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
200
Fluffy lower clouds that often "grow" during sunny days. Usually mean fair weather unless they grow tall late in the day.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Measures how much rain has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
200
Gases surrounding the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape.
What is a tornado.
300
Water changing into water vapor as heat or energy is added.
What is evaporation?
300
High, wispy ice clouds. Often seen in clear skies and mean good weather, but can mean a change in the weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Shows the direction of North.
What is a compass?
300
The three properties of air.
What are volume (space), mass (weight), and pressure?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
What is a hurricane?
400
Water vapor turning back into a liquid as it cools.
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface.
What is fog?
400
Determines the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
400
The four main directions that wind can blow.
What is North, South, East, and West.
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall.
What is a flood?
500
When water gathers on the earth's surface.
What is collection?
500
Giant thunderhead clouds that tower to high heights. Thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail, winds, and lightning are on the way.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
500
This makes weather.
What is moving air?
500
A long period of time with very, very little rainfall.
What is a drought?