Water Cycle
When water gathers in a lake, ocean, river, or stream.
What is accumulation?
Small droplets of water form these in the atmosphere.
What are clouds?
The tool I should use to measure total rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
The coldest climate zone.
What is the Polar zone?
a mass of many water droplets or bits of ice that float in the air
What is a cloud?
This is the part of the water cycle when water vapor turns back into water droplets.
What is condensation?
This is the freezing point of water (name temerature).
What is 32*F and 0*C
These are the 4 types of clouds?
What are Cirrus, Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, and Stratus?
The average conditions in a certain place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Movement of water from the earth to the air and back to the earth
What is the water cycle?
The part of the water cycle when it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or hailing.
What is precipitation?
The other name for water vapor.
What is steam?
This is what a meteorologist would us to give the weather report on TV.
What is a weather map?
Conditions in the air that change from day to day?
What is weather?
The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
The extra water that is not absorbed into the ground is called this.
What is runoff?
Name the 3 states of water.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
This is the boiling point of water (name temperature)
What is 212*F and 100*C
This is the climate zone that is even temperatures and weather and where most humans live.
What is the Temperate zone?
The short-term conditions of the atmosphere in a local area, which include temperature, humidity, clouds, precipitation, and wind speed.
What is weather?
This is what happens to puddles on the ground after it rains.
What is evaporation?
Name all steps of the water cycle.
What is accumulation, evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
The name of a scientist who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
The name for a storm that is funnel-shaped, produces rain, thunder, hail, and wind speeds of up to 300 MPH.
What is a tornado?
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?