1. 4 th Grade Weather and Water Cycle Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary for 4 th Grade Science: Weather and Water Cycle LiquidVapor PrecipitationWater Cycle SolidWeather TemperatureHumidity CondensationGas Evaporation

3. What do we call the constant movement of water from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back to Earth’s surface?

4. Water Cycle

5. What do we call the process by which a gas changes into a liquid?

6. Condensation

7. What do we call the process by which a liquid changes into a gas?

8. Evaporation

9. What do we call water that falls from clouds to the Earth?

10. Precipitation

11. What do we call a state of matter that does not have a definite shape; it takes the shape of its container?

12. Liquid

13. What do we call a measurement of the amount of water vapor in the air?

14. Humidity

15. What do we call the condition of the atmosphere at a certain place and time?

16. Weather

17. What do we call a state of matter that has a definite shape?

18. Solid

19. What do we call a state of matter that does not have a definite shape; it sometimes takes the shape of its container and sometimes flies freely around you ?

20. Gas

21. What do we call the measurement in which water boils at 100 C or 212 F and water freezes at 0 C and 32 F?

22. Temperature

23. What do we call the gas form of water; it forms when water boils or evaporates?

24. Water Vapor