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Tools
Key Words
Clouds
The Water Cycle
Earth's Atmosphere
100
This tool is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This word describes what the air is like outside.
What is 'weather'?
100
These are low, gray clouds that stretch across the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
100
The suns heat makes water ________ from the ocean.
What is evaporate?
100
This is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in.
What is the troposphere?
200
This tool measures wind direction.
What is a wind sock?
200
This is the act of water changing into a gas
What is evaporation?
200
These are thin, feathery clouds high in the sky. They are usually seen on sunny days.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
In the second stage of the water cycle the water vapor rises and meets _________.
What is cool air?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere where satellites are located.
What is the Thermosphere?
300
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
This is the way water moves from the air to the land and back to the air.
What is the water cycle?
300
These puffy white clouds look like cotton or sheep and can bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
This is the term used when water vapor changes into tiny drops of water.
What is condensation?
300
This is when two air masses meet and a weather change occurs.
What is a front?
400
This tool measures amounts of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
400
This is light and heat from the sun.
What is solar energy?
400
These are large, dark, gray clouds that bring rain.
What are nimbus clouds?
400
Drops of water in the clouds become heavy and fall as ______ and _______.
What are rain and snow?
400
This section of the earth's atmosphere is where the ozone layer exists.
What is the stratosphere?
500
These machines use radio waves to create pictures that show the location and intensity of precipitation.
What is radar?
500
This means a change from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
500
Clouds are made up of these.
What are water droplets, dust, and other particles.
500
Rain and melted snow restart the water cycle when they flow into streams, _______, and _______.
What are lakes and oceans?
500
This layer of the earth's atmosphere protects it from meteorites.
What is the mesosphere?