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Water Cycle
Clouds
Instruments
Vocabulary
Trivia
100
Nature's way of recycling water.
What is "the Water Cycle"?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow may fall from them.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Measures the amount of heat in a substance.
What is a thermometer?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
100
The most common type of storm.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The layer of air around the Earth
What is Atmosphere?
200
Rain, Sleet, Snow, and Hail
What are 4 kinds of precipitation?
300
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
A tool that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300
Scientists who study weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
Ice crystals that begin to fall but are picked up by wind gusts until they become too heavy and fall to the ground.
What is hail.
400
The amount of water in the air.
What is humidity?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface.
What is fog?
400
Helps determine where wind comes from.
What is a weather vane?
400
When warm air meets the cold ground.
What is dew?
400
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
What is a hurricane?
500
What that pools after it rains.
What is runoff?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Measures amounts of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
500
The state of weather of a place over a long time.
What is climate?
500
Patterns of movement in air or water caused by temperature.
What is a convection current?