Category 1
The continual movement of water between Earth and the atmosphere. It also gets its energy from the sun.
What is the water cycle?
Water that soaks underground.
What is groundwater?
Describes how warm or cool the air is.
What is temperature?
The condition of outside air or atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
Clouds are classified according to these two factors.
What is their shape and height?
Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere.
What is precipitation?
This happens to precipitation, especially rain, once it falls to the ground.
What is runoff?
Name the tool that measures temperature and name the tool that measures air pressure.
What is a thermometer and a barometer?
The weather patterns of a region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The three main types of cloud shapes.
What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus?
The process when a liquid changes into a gas or water vapor.
What is evaporation?
These form as a result of condensation.
What are clouds?
The amount of air pushing down on the Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
A scientist who predicts the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
A boundary between two different air masses.
What is a front?
The process when a gas or water vapor changes into a liquid.
What is condensation?
The two types of condensation when no clouds are formed.
What are dew and frost?
The level of moisture present in the air.
What is humidity?
A scientist who looks at weather patterns over long periods of time.
Who is a climatologist?
The number of types of fronts.
What is four?
Name the four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
The release of water from plants.
What is transpiration?
The layer of Earth's atmosphere closest to the surface.
What is the troposphere?
The three major climate zones that the Earth is divided into.
What is polar, temperate, and tropical?
Name the different types of fronts.
What are cold, warm, occluded, and stationary fronts?