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Clouds
Study of Weather
Water
Stages of the Water Cycle
Temperatures and Weather Tools
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Clouds are made up of these two things.
What is water vapor and dust.
100
The scientific study of weather is called this.
What is meteorology?
100
This is the name for any form of water falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
100
When the sun heats up the water in rivers or lakes and turns it into vapor or steam it is called this.
What is evaporation?
100
This is the temperature at which water freezes or melts.
What is 32 degrees Farenheit?
200
The name of round fluffy clouds that are found in mid-sky.
What is cumulus clouds.
200
This is a prediction about future weather events.
What is a forecast?
200
Water vapor is this type of precipitation
What is fog?
200
This is what it is called when the water falls back to earth and is contained in oceans, lakes or rivers.
What is collection?
200
This is the temperature at which water boils.
What is 212 degrees Farenheit?
300
This type of cloud is wispy and found high in the sky.
What is cirrus?
300
The weather patterns in the U.S. move in this direction.
What is west to east?
300
This is the form of precipitation that falls as ice crystals.
What is snow?
300
This occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore.
What is precipitation?
300
This weather tool is used to measure the amount of rain that falls.
What is a rain gauge?
400
These types of clouds look like a blanket low in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
400
This is the measurement of how warm or cool the air is.
What is temperature?
400
This is the solid ice form of precipitation.
What is hail?
400
When water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid forming clouds it is called this.
What is condensation?
400
This weather tool is used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
500
Clouds are described by these two characteristics.
What is shape and height?
500
These are the four pieces of information given in a good forecast.
What is temperature, precipitation, sky conditions and air pressure?
500
This is the amount of water vapor (moisture) in the air.
What is humidity?
500
One of these two things happens to precipitation that ends up on land.
What is soak into the earth or run off the soil and collect in oceans, lakes or rivers?
500
This weather tool is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?