Water Cycle
The process of nature's way of recycling water, so the amount of water on earth stays the same.
What is the water cycle?
H and L on a weather map represent
What is air pressure?
The two instruments that are best for predicting weather.
What is thermometer and barometer?
Cold air moves under and pushes up the warm air. Clouds and precipitation occur. Often brings thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
The water heats on a stove too long and changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
The process of the rain cycle from cloud to rain.
What is precipitation?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Warm air moves up and over cold air. Layers of gray clouds and steady precipitation.
What is a warm front?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
The formation of a cloud from water vapor is called
condesation
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
The pressure that brings happy weather: clear skies and sunshine.
What is high pressure?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
The temperature is below freezing, this type of precipitation will most likely occur.
What is snow?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
The pressure is lousy weather that brings rain and thunderstorms.
What is low pressure?
Cooking pasta and there is steam coming from the pot. The water is changing from liquid to ________
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
Measures how hot or cold something is.
What is a thermometer?
The process of liquid turning into a solid.
What is freezing?