1. Vocabulary Flash Cards
Weather
Grade 5
Vocabulary Flash Cards
Norwood Elementary Science

2. Air Mass Air pressure Large amounts of moving air
Air pushing on the Earth
Anemometer
Measures wind speed

3. Beaufort scale Cirrus clouds Barometer Measures air pressure
Wind speed values
Cirrus clouds
High, thin wispy clouds

4. Climate Cold front Weather over a long time
Cold air taking over warm air
Condensation
Vapor turning to liquid when heat removed

5. Cumulus clouds Fog Puffy fair weather clouds
Evaporation
Liquid turning to vapor when heat added
Fog
Cloud on the ground

6. Front Jet Stream Where two air masses meet
Groundwater
Water that seeps into the ground
Jet Stream
Band of high altitude fast moving air

7. Rain One who studies weather Meteorologist Water falling from the sky
Precipitation
Water falling from the sky
Rain
Water drops falling from clouds

8. Relative humidity Sleet
Water vapor present compared to amount air can hold
Revolution
Earth orbits sun causing seasons
Sleet
Frozen rain

9. Snow Solar energy Warm front Frozen water vapor
Heat and light from the Sun
Warm front
Warm air replacing cold air

10. Water cycle Weather Wind
Evaporation,
condensation, precipitation,
runoff
Weather
Day to day changes in temp, precip, wind and humidity
Wind
Air, heated by Sun, moving over the Earth