Weather Patterns
This happens when a warm air parcel rises and loses energy to cooler surrounding air.
What is rainfall?
On Day 1, it didn’t rain. On Day 2, it did. This temperature difference explains why.
What is the air parcel on Day 2 was warmer than the surrounding air and lost energy?
What is the process called when water from oceans, lakes, or rivers turns into water vapor and rises into the air?
Evaporation
This fruit is technically a berry, but a strawberry isn’t.
What is a banana?
"They’re grrreat!"
What is Frosted Flakes?
When wind pushes an air parcel higher, this happens to the energy and rainfall.
What is the air parcel loses more energy and causes more rainfall?
This is the process where liquid water turns into a gas.
What is evaporation?
What happens when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets, forming clouds?
Condensation
This astronaut left the first human footprint on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
"The quicker picker upper."
What is Bounty?
This is the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
As an air parcel rises in the troposphere and the surrounding air gets colder, this happens to the air parcel.
What is it loses energy and water vapor condenses into rain?
What do we call it when water falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Precipitation
This continent is the driest place on Earth — even though it's covered in ice!
What is Antarctica?
You're not you when you're hungry."
What is Snickers?
This is a large mass of air that moves as a single unit.
What is an air parcel?
Two air parcels had the same amount of water vapor. One rained, the other didn’t. The one that rained must have done this.
What is lost energy because it was warmer than the surrounding air?
How does the Sun play an important role in the water cycle?
It provides the energy needed for evaporation.
This sea creature existed millions of years before trees were on Earth.
What is a shark?
"Obey your thirst."
What is Sprite?
This is the process where water vapor cools and becomes liquid.
What is condensation?
Jake noticed water drops forming on the outside of his water bottle. This is where the water came from.
What is the water vapor in the air turning into liquid water?
What is the name of the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth's surface, where all weather happens?
The troposphere
This part of your body can be more active during sleep than while you're awake.
What is the brain?
"I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready!"
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?