Never ending cycle where rain precipitates, collects, evaporates, and condensates.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Air moving
What is wind?
100
The usual weather in a particular weather. For example: during winter it is usually cold and snowy in New England.
What is climate?
200
The process of water changing from a liquid into gas.
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
A tool used for telling which direction the wind is blowing.
What is a weather vane?
200
Degrees of how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
300
The part of the water cycle where rain water collects into streams, puddles, oceans, and other bodies of water.
What is collection?
300
Thin, wispy clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
A tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
The process of the air becoming warmer by about one degree per year.
What is global warming?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets or ice crystals and forming clouds.
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface (on the ground).
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
When high air pressure moves to a low air pressure area.
How is wind created?
400
A scientist who measures and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
The part of the water cycle where water falls from clouds.
What is precipitation?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
The earth's position in relation to the sun. When it is the closest to the sun it will be summer, and when it is the farthest away from the sun it will be winter.