1. 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 Weather Tools

2. Nature’s way of recycling water

3. What is the water cycle?

4. The Process which returns water to the atmosphere

5. What is evaporation?

6. Water that falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

7. What is Precipitation?

8. The process of water vapor turning into water droplets

9. What is condensation?

10. Water that flows into streams, groundwater systems, lakes, reservoirs, and oceans

11. What is runoff?

12. Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them

13. What are stratus clouds?

14. White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair- weather clouds

15. What are cumulus clouds?

16. Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way

17. What are cirrus clouds?

18. Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface

19. What is fog?

20. Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds

21. What are cumulonimbus clouds?

22. The state of the air at a certain time and place

23. What is weather?

24. Scientists who study weather

25. Who are meteorologists?

26. North, South, East, and West

27. What are the Cardinal Directions?

28. Ice crystals that freeze together and fall from clouds.

29. What is snow?

30. Rounded pieces of ice formed during thunderstorms.

31. What is hail?

32. Most common type of storm

33. What is a thunderstorm?

34. Spinning cloud with a funnel shape

35. What is a tornado?

36. Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water

37. What is a hurricane?

38. Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall

39. What is a flood?

40. Another name for a hurricane

41. What is a typhoon?

42. Tools that help us measure weather.

43. What are rain gauge, wind vane, thermometer, and anemometer?

44. Measures the amount of rainfall.

45. What is a rain gauge?

46. Measures temperature

47. What is a thermometer?

48. Instrument that shows wind direction

49. What is a wind vane?

50. Measures wind speed

51. What is an anemometer?