Water Cycle
Vocabulary
States of Matter
Weather Instruments
What am I?
100
The process when water droplets fall back to the earth
What is precipitation?
100
The amount of water in the air.
What is humidity?
100
The state of matter when water turns into a vapor or steam.
What is gas?
100
An instrument that measures the temperature of the air.
What is thermometer?
100
Earth's water moving through the environment.
What is the water cycle?
200
The steam that rises from boiling water.
What is evaporation?
200
Rain, Sleet, Snow and Hail
What is precipitation?
200
The state of matter when water is condensation.
What is liquid?
200
This instrument shows the wind direction (where the wind is coming from).
What is wind vane?
200
I am a mass of warm air that brings stormy weather.
What is low air pressure?
300
Tiny droplets of water (condensation) that form together at different levels in the atmosphere.
What is clouds?
300
The process when water vapor changes back into liquid water.
What is condensation?
300
The state of matter when rain has turned into hail.
What is solid?
300
This instrument measures the amount of rain fall.
What is rain gauge?
300
The amount of this on Earth today is the exact same that was on Earth a billion years ago.
What is water?
400
Rainwater and groundwater that run back into the oceans.
What is Run Off?
400
Weight of the air.
What is air pressure?
400
The state of matter when the sun heats up rain puddles and the droplets go back into the air.
What is gas?
400
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is barometer?
400
I am a mass of cold air that brings calm weather.
What is high air pressure?
500
Water put off by plants and animals that goes back into the environment.
What is transpiration?
500
The layer of air that surrounds the earth.
What is atmosphere?
500
The state of matter when water in the atmosphere form clouds.
What is liquid?
500
This instrument measures the amount of humidity in the air.
What is hygrometer?
500
I am the direction that most weather systems travel across the U.S.
What is west to east.