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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Fronts and
Air Pressure
100
Liquid that freezes on the way to Earth.
What is sleet
100
Gray layered clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
How hot or cold it is outside
What is the temperature?
100
Most common type of storm that we see
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement? Lower level of the house.
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
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
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
What type of weather does high air pressure bring
What is no precipitation?
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery 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 shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
What type of weather does a stationary front bring
What is RAIN for several days?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow on the land. It is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
What type of weather does a cold front bring
What is cooler temperatures and storms?
500
Water that travels back to the ocean
What is run-off?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather instrument that measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
500
What causes our weather to move from west to east
What is the jet stream?
500
What does LOW air pressure mean
What is precipitation and a cloudy sky ?