Important Vocabulary What Are Clouds Water in Clouds
Important Vocabulary What Are Clouds? Water in Clouds What Causes Storms? All Lessons 100 pt 100 pt 200 pt 200 pt 300 pt 300 pt 400 pt 400 pt 500 pt 500 pt
Water that is in invisible and in the form of a gas
Answer: Water vapor
A form of water that falls from clouds to the ground
Answer: precipitation
A huge storm that forms over ocean water
Answer: hurricane
A mass of many water droplets or bits of ice that float in the air.
Answer: cloud
To change from a gas to a liquid
Answer: condensation
How does water evaporate?
Answer: Water evaporates with the help of the sun’s heat and wind.
Daily Double What happens when water vapor condenses
Answer: It changes from a gas to a liquid and a cloud forms.
Name the cloud: Patchy, feathery clouds, Found high in the sky
Answer: cirrus
Low gray clouds that bring bad weather for days
Answer: stratus
Describe Cumulonimbus Clouds
Answer: Fluffy, huge top, dark gray bottom, bring thunderstorms and heavy rain
What happens to water too heavy to stay in the clouds?
Answer: Precipitation
How does the Water Cycle begin?
Answer: When water evaporates.
What is the process of reusing water called?
Answer: The Water Cycle
Where can most water be found?
Answer: In the oceans.
Name 3 types of precipitation
Answer: Rain, sleet, snow, hail
Where do hurricanes form?
Answer: Over warm water oceans
What is the most common type of storm?
Answer: thunderstorms
How can you stay safe during a thunderstorm?
Answer: • Get out of water • Don’t stand under trees • Go inside immediately • Stay away from metal objects
How do storms form?
Answer Storms form when warm air rises and cool air rushes in.
How do you stay safe during a tornado?
Answer: Go to the basement or inside a closet, crouch low, keep away from windows
What is a blizzard?
Answer: A very cold storm with strong winds and heavy snow.
What are the 3 main steps in the water cycle?
Answer: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
Which storm has the strongest winds?
Answer: tornadoes
What is the difference between evaporation and condensation?
Answer: Evaporation is when a liquid changes to a gas and condensation is when a gas changes to a liquid.
How are hurricanes and tornadoes alike and different?
Answer: Alike: Both have strong winds, cause lots of damage Different: Hurricanes form over water, Tornadoes form over land move on a very narrow path
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