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Water Cycle
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What is a cloud?
What is millions of tiny water droplets
100
What does a barometer do?
What is measures the air pressure.
100
What are cirrus clouds?
What is thin, wispy clouds.
100
What is severe weather?
What is weather that is not "normal" or typical.
100
What is condensation?
What is when water vapor cools and changes back into a liquid.
200
What is temperature?
What is how hot or cold something is
200
What does a rain gauge do?
What is an instrument that measures rainfall.
200
What are stratus clouds?
What is dark, layered clouds
200
At what point does water freeze?
What is 32.
200
What is dew?
What is condensation that occurs outdoors due to warmer air striking a colder surface.
300
What is precipitation?
What is water that falls to the ground.
300
What does a thermometer do?
What is measures the air temperature
300
What are cumulus clouds?
What are fluffy white puffs
300
A low pressure system usually brings in what kind of weather?
What is a storm.
300
What are the 3 forms of water?
What is water, liquid, and gas.
400
What is a meteorologist?
What is a person who forecasts the weather.
400
What does an anemometer measure?
What is the wind speed.
400
Where are clouds placed in the sky, beginning with the lowest?
What is stratus, cumulus, and cirrus.
400
What is a "front"
What is where warm and cold air masses meet and mix.
400
What is the driving force of the water cycle?
What is the sun.
500
What is the atmosphere?
What is the air around the Earth.
500
Why does a meteorologist require different instruments to help him/her forecast the weather?
What is to help define specific parts of the weather pattern.
500
What is the difference between cirrus and stratus clouds as they help to tell you things about the weather?
What is cirrus clouds indicate a storm may approach, while stratus are actual stormy clouds.
500
Give me 3 examples of extreme weather.
What is blizzard, hurricane, tornado
500
Tell me the steps of the water cycle from collection through the entire process.
What is collection, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.