2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Water Cycle Clouds Weather Vocabulary Stormy Weather Tornado Safety and Trivia
Nature’s way of recycling water
What is the water cycle?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
Precipitation that falls to the ground and returns to lakes and oceans
What is runoff?
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair- weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
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?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Instrument that measures the amount of rain
What is a rain gauge?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?