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Weather/Climate
Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather Devices
The Atmosphere
100
What changes daily?
Weather
100
What is it called when the sun heats up water and the water vapor rises into the air?
Evaporation
100
What clouds are found high in the sky, are thin and wispy, and made of tiny ice crystals. They often predict a change in weather.
Cirrus Clouds
100
What measures temperature?
Thermometer
100
What happens when air molecules are heated?
They rise.
200
What is based on the average of the past 30 years?
Climate
200
What is it called when the water droplets fall to the ground?
Precipitation
200
What clouds are flat and layered and usually predict precipitation?
Stratus Clouds
200
What measures wind speed? (BONUS point of if you can draw one)
Anemometer
200
How is the Earth heated? HINT: it is not directly heated from the sun! Where does it go first?
It is heated by the radiant energy absorbed by the Earth and then released as heat.
300
What are three of the four forms of precipitation?
Rain Snow Sleet Hail
300
What is it called when the water vapour cools and turns into clouds?
Condensation
300
What clouds are seen most often in the summer and are thick and fluffy?
Cumulus Clouds
300
What measures wind direction?
Weather vane
300
What is acid rain?
When the pollution that goes into the air gets caught in the precipitation from the water cycle and gets rained down on the Earth.
400
What is an example of the climate in Mexico? Based on this climate, what would you wear?
Hot, humid Shorts, t-shirt, bathing suits
400
What are the last two parts of the water cycle? (when it travels down hills and then pools in a main water source?)
Run off and collection
400
What is another word for rain? BONUS points if you can also state the word for high
Nimbus BONUS: ALTO
400
What is the substance in a thermometer?
Mercury
400
Why is it warmer at noon then early in the morning when the sun is rising? HINT: think about the amount of sun hitting the Earth at these times!
It is because of the angle of the sun.
500
What were we testing when we poured vinegar on Tuffy and Suzy?
Acid Rain
500
Draw the entire water cycle.
Evaporation-->Condensation-->Precipitation-->Run Off-->Collection-->...
500
How do clouds form?
When drops of water cool and collect around dust particles.
500
If the tip of a weather vane is pointing East what direction is the wind going towards?
West
500
What is the greenhouse effect?
Where gases in the atmosphere first allow the sun's energy to pass through and then absorb the heat that bounces off the Earth. This keeps the Earth warm and livable.