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Weather/Water Cycle
Weather/Water Cycle vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| evaporation | water turning into gas using heat |
| condensation | gas turning into a liquid by loosing energy or heat |
| precipitation | rain, sleet, snow, or hail |
| run-off | water running off a mountain, hill, etc. into a body of water |
| transpiration | leaf sweat |
| anemometer | measures wind speed |
| barometer | measures air pressure |
| high air pressure | sunny |
| low air pressure | rain |
| weather vane/wind vane | shows direction wind is coming from |
| thermometer | measures heat or temperature |
| Stratus clouds | flat blanket of clouds - rainy, dreary day |
| cirrus clouds | thin, wispy clouds - indicate change in weather and also fair weather day |
| cumulus clouds | white, puffy fluffy clouds with flat bottoms - fair weather day |
| cumulonimbus clouds | thunderstorm clouds |
| equator | imaginary line dividing earth in half - closer to equator the hotter it gets |
| humidity | moisture in the air |
| climate | average temperature and rainfall over many YEARS! |
| weather | day to day atmospheric conditions |
| rain gauge | measures amount of precipitation |
| Gulf Stream | warm Atlantic waters that move up the coast and keeps the temperatures at the beach mild during the winter |
| Westerlies | air that pushes air masses west to east |