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Water Cycle
Clouds
Instruments
Vocabulary
Anything goes
100
Water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
This is a white, fluffy looking cloud, that usually brings fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
This instrument shows how much rain has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
100
A scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
This is the source of energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
200
rain, snow, hail, and sleet
What are the 4 types of precipitation?
200
This cloud brings rain or snow and covers the whole sky.
What are stratus clouds?
200
This instrument gives the temperature of the air.
What is a thermometer?
200
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
200
Most precipitation falls here.
What is an ocean?
300
Water vapor changes into water.
What is condensation?
300
This cloud is high in the sky and is made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
This instrument shows the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
300
Water in the form of a gas.
What is vapor?
300
What are frost and dew?
What is condensation?
400
The water flows on the Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
400
This is a dark, heavy looking cloud, that brings severe storms.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
This instrument measures the air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
This is where the water cycle occurs around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
This is another name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
500
The water moves downward into the earth.
What is ground water?
500
Clouds are formed by this process.
What is condensation?
500
This instrument shows wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This is the movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to Earth as precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
500
Water vapor passes into the air through a plant's leaves.
What is transpiration?