Water Cycle
Water changing from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
These clouds are high and wispy.
What are cirrus clouds?
Water falling from clouds in any form.
What is precipitation?
The name for moving air.
What is wind?
This tool displays weather conditions across different places.
What is a weather map?
Water vapor cools and changes into liquid droplets.
What is condensation?
These puffy clouds often appear during fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
Liquid droplets that fall from clouds.
What is rain?
Air generally moves from areas of this pressure toward low pressure.
What is high pressure?
Name two observations you could record in a weather journal.
What are temperature, clouds, wind, or precipitation?
Put these in order: precipitation, evaporation, condensation.
What are:
Evaporation~condensation~precipitation
These clouds form a widespread layer that can make the sky look overcast.
What are stratus clouds?
Name two forms of frozen precipitation.
What are snow, sleet or hail?
This homemade tool uses spinning cups to estimate wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
On a weather map, these show which way air is moving.
What are wind direction arrows?
A cold surface above warm, moist air helps make a cloud in a jar. Name the process that forms the tiny droplets.
What is condensation?
You see a blanket of stratus clouds spreading across the sky. Describe the sky you would expect.
What is mostly cloudy or overcast?
Why can one storm produce rain while another produces snow?
What are differences in temperature through the atmosphere and near the ground?
A flag points east as wind blows through it. Which way is the air moving?
What is toward the east?
A map shows colder temperatures moving into your area. What is one possible effect on precipitation?
What is a greater chance that it could fall as snow or other frozen precipitation if conditions are cold enough?
Explain how water from a lake can eventually fall as rain.
What is: if evaporates, the vapor cools and condenses into cloud droplets grow large enough to fall?
Why can cloud type help with a forecast without guaranteeing tomorrow's weather?
What is:
clouds provide clues about current conditions, but weather can change?
The shaving cream in "rain in a cup" represents a cloud. What does the food coloring model, and what is one limit of the model?
What is falling rain; real clouds are made of timy water droplets or ice crystals, not shaving cream?
Why might changing wind direction change the weather in your town?
What is:
wind can bring in air with a different temperature and moisture level?
You observe increasing clouds and stronger wind. What would you predict for tomorrow, and what evidence would you check before deciding?
Weather ma change; chech the cloud types, temperature, wind direction and a weather map