Uncontrolled fire often occurring in wild land areas.
What is Wild Fire?
100
This device measures temperature, how hot or cold something is.
What is a Thermometer?
100
The process where water vapor turns into liquid water.
What is Condensation?
100
Specific areas in the world based on climate.
What are Regions?
100
Gas that surrounds the earth.
What is Atmosphere?
200
This results from days of heavy rain or melting snows, when rivers rise and go over their banks.
What is Flooding?
200
This device measures air pressure.
What is a Barometer?
200
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants into the air.
What is Transpiration?
200
A type of climate where it rains a lot - countries in this climate include Peru, The Bahamas, and Costa Rica.
What is Tropical?
200
The condition of the air, including which direction the wind is blowing and how warm or cold it is.
What is Weather?
300
A funnel cloud with spinning columns of air that drop from the clouds and touch the ground.
What is a Tornado?
300
This device measures wind speed.
What is an Anemometer?
300
The process where liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
300
A type of climate where it is very hot and rains very little. Places in this climate include Death Valley, Iraq, and Egypt.
What is Arid?
300
How things change and move.
What is Energy?
400
The absence of water in a region for a long period of time.
What is Drought?
400
This is the name for how much water is in the atmosphere.
What is Humidity?
400
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground from clouds in the sky.
What is Precipitation?
400
A type of climate that is very, very cold. Places in this climate include Russia, Canada, and the Arctic Circle.
What is Polar?
400
The weight of air pressing down on earth.
What is Air Pressure?
500
Hugh storms with swirling winds. They originate in Africa and get bigger as they cross the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a Hurricane?
500
This is the name for how closely packed molecules are. In solids, like ice, molecules are tightly packed. In gases, like water vapor, molecules are very far apart.
What is Density?
500
A large collection of tiny droplets of water or ice crystals, so light they float in the atmosphere.
What is a Cloud?
500
A type of climate where it is neither extremely hot nor extremely cold. Places in this climate include the United States, France, and The Netherlands.
What is Temperate?
500
The explosive sound of air expanding, pushing apart air particles, as it is heated by lightning.