Science Test on Clouds, Water Cycle, Weather Station
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Science Test on Clouds, Water Cycle, Weather
Station
Science Test on Clouds, Water Cycle, Weather Station
1. _____Clouds form in blanklet-like layers
Stratus
Clouds
2. Puffy clouds that appear to rise up from a flat bottom
are ________ cloudsCumulus
3. _____ Clouds form at high altitudes out of ice
crystals and have a wispy featherlike shape.
Cirus
4. If rain or snow falls from a cloud, the term
______(which means “rain”) is added to the cloud’s
name.
nimbo
5. As water vapor rises higher and higher in the
sky it ____ and may form _____
CondensesClouds
6. All clouds form in the
_____________________
or the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
troposphere
7. Clouds are grouped in families by their __________and _________Shape Height
8._________Clouds are usually present during fair weather, but can turn into
thunderclouds
Cumulus
Play the cloud matching game http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloudmatch.html
9. The __________is most responsible for our weather and warming the water and
land.
Sun
The Water Cycle
10. ____________Water which accumulates on the soil surface as a result of rainfall and flows over the soil surface from higher to lower
land.
Run-off
11. The process of liquid becoming water vapor as it leaves the earth’s surface and enter the atmosphere is called __________Evaporation
Evaporation
12. Liquid or frozen water droplets fall to Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail is called
__________________Precipitation
13. On a hot sunny day, I hung my clean clothes on
the line to dry. As the clothes dry the water
___________________into
the _______________air
evaporates
Warm
14. A puddle may change shape and become smaller
on a hot sunny day because it is changing from a ______to a _____which
we call, evaporationliquid gas
15. _________energy, or energy from the sun is the type of energy responsible
for evaporation.
Solar
16. When warm air full of water vapor meet cool air, _________ occurs in the form of tiny water droplets, similar to the
droplets we found on the outside of our glasses.
condensation
17. Tiny water droplets attach to dust particles in
the sky and form
______________________Clouds
18. A ______________measures the pressure in the air
Barometer
Weather Station
Look at the pointer on the barometer. 1. What type weather will you have based on the barometric pressure?
Barometer
2. What number would the pointer be on to tell us it is going to be a sunny day?
Cloudy 1030 barometric pressure
humidity
19. A hygrometer measures
____________________or the moisture in the air
Bonus: If the temperature is zero degrees, then what would reading would be on the hydrometer? 25%
If it is zero degrees outside, would it be winter or summer?
Winter
20. A _________is a glass tube that measures
the air temperature.
Thermometer
Approximately what temperature is it?
Would it be cold, warm or hot outside?
75 degrees and warm outside
21. As we checked out weather station, we became
___________________or people that study the weather and deep data
about its patterns
meteorologist
22. To find the average monthly temperature for Raleigh, NC you would
_____the temperature for each day and then
______the sum the total number of days in the
month.
add
divide
Mon 750
Tue 740
Wed 760
Thurs 750
Fri 730
Sat 770
Sun 750
Total 525
527÷7 = 750
23. Warm air rises and is
called ________updrafts
24. A_________
is cool air falling back
to the earth’s surface.
Drown draft
25. Air that moves horizontally is called
_________. It is created by the heating and cooling rates of soil and water.
wind
26. The weight of air can also be called air
________. A high pressure system will usually be followed
by sunshine.
pressure
Where is the high pressureMoving toward? East, West, North or south?
Moving East
27. The thinner air affects temperature because thin
air holds less
___________.heat
28. _________ usually follows a high pressure system. Which picture
represents this statement
Sunshine, A
29. High winds will most likely cause temperatures
to _______________decrease
30. The temperature at the______of the mountain is
cooler that the temperature at the ________ of the
mountain.
top
bottom
Mountain goats go (migrate) up the mountain in the summer to cool off.
Mountains, Sea breezes & latitude
31. As you get closer to the center of the Earth or the _________ temperatures tend to be warmer, these areas are called tropical.
equator
equator
32. Sue lives in Oklahoma and has no large bodies of water near her. Sue most likely experiences warm ______and cool winters. Tom lives
near the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, California (CA) where temperatures are less varied from
season to season.
summers
33. In our soil and water experiment, the soil
represented the _______ and the water represented
lakes and oceans.
earth
34. Soil tends to heat up and cool down fast while
______takes longer to heat but holds the warmth longer.
water
35. You are walking on the beach and feel the warm sand under your feet. The water is still
cool. This is because the sun warms ______more quickly than _____.soil water
You go to the beach in May and the air temperature is 90 degrees, but beach water is still cold. Why?
What was your score?1st time______2nd time______3rd time______
Great Job!!!