Weather Pattern Vocabulary

an amount of air that moves as a unit

• Floating box

• Air parcel

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

the mixture of gases surrounding a planet

• Atmosphere

• Cloud

• Energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

CLOUD:

liquid water droplets suspended in the air

• TRUE

• FALSE

the process by which a gas (water vapor) changes into a liquid (fog, midst, dew, cloud)

• evaporation

• precipitation

• condensation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

ENERGY:

the ability to make things move or change

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

the process by which a liquid changes into a gas

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds onto the ground

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

TEMPERATURE:

a measure of how hot or cold something is

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

TROPOSPHERE:

the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth, where weather happens

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Evaporated water as a gas

• Clouds

• Water vapor

• Snow

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4