Weather Tools, Water Cycle, and Clouds

Measures wind speed

• Thermometer

• Barometer

• Anemometer

• Rain gauge

Water changing from liquid to gas (vapor) when heat energy is applied to it like from the sun.

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The process in which water moves through the earth and the atmosphere

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Water cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Measures air pressure

• Anemometer

• Thermometer

• Barometer

• Wind sock

Water vapor cools and changes from a gas to a liquid. This process forms clouds.

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Choose all the forms of precipitation.

• Rain

• Mud

• Sleet

• Snow

• Hail

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Measures the amount of rainfall in an area

• Thermometer

• Rain gauge

• Barometer

• Anemometer

What provides energy in the water cycle?

• Moon tides

• the sun

• the gravitational pull on the north pole

• elephants

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When a plant releases water through its leaves it is called

• precipitation

• condensation

• transpiration

• evaporation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Water that flows back to the ocean is called

• transpiration

• evaporation

• run-off

• rain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4