Clouds
This white, puffy cloud looks like cotton and often means fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
Water that falls from clouds as rain or snow
What is precipitation?
Warm or hot air compared to cold air; we measure it with a thermometer.
What is temperature?
A person who designs tools and machines to solve problems
What is an engineer?
Place where the sun is more direct
What is the equator?
These clouds form high in the sky and look thin and wispy.
What are cirrus clouds?
When the sun heats water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and it turns into vapor
What is evaporation?
Places near the equator are usually this: warm all year
What is tropical or hot?
A small prototype an engineer works on to help them design something larger
What is a model?
A place where the sun is at an angle?
What are the poles?
A gray cloud that covers the sky and often brings steady rain or snow
What is a stratus or nimbostratus cloud?
Water vapor cools and changes back into tiny drops to form clouds
What is condensation?
Very cold areas with ice and snow year-round, like near the poles
What is polar?
Something an engineer tries to solve
What is a problem?
The time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun
What is a year?
Clouds that grow tall and can bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Water vapor freezing in a cumulonimbus cloud
What is hail?
A place that is dry with little or no rain
What is the desert?
Engineers use these to test their ideas
What are models?
Place that is tilted away from the sun with shorter days
Southern Hemisphere
When many tiny water drops or ice crystals stick together in the sky and fall as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, they come from clouds
What is precipitation?
Put these steps in order: condensation, precipitation, evaporation.
What is evaporation → condensation → precipitation?)
A place with warm summers, cold winters, trees that lose leaves and animals that hibernate
What is temperate climate?
Another job of an engineer
What is brainstorm possible solutions to a problem
Place that is tilted towards the sun with longer days
Northern Hemisphere