Weather Patterns

Every cloud, no matter its shape or size, is condensed water that was once gas.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

precipitation

• conditions such as rain, clouds, and wind at a particular time and place

• the process by which a liquid changes into a gas

• the process by which a gas changes into a liquid

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

air parcel

• water as a gas

• the path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different states

• an amount of air that moves as a unit

• a measure of how hot or cold something is

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Water vapor in an air parcel must cool in order to condense into liquid water.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The more an air parcel loses energy and cools, the more rainfall can happen.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

troposphere

• water as a gas

• to move from one object to another or one place to another

• liquid water droplets suspended in air

• lowest layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs

All clouds form when __________ in air parcels comes in contact with colder surrounding air.

• liquid water

• water vapor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Precipitation happens when rain drops ________ and become ________ and too ________ to stay suspended in the air.

• collide, larger, heavy

• sink, thick, heavy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Why might a cloud form without rain?

• Clouds are too high in the troposphere so the water vapor turns to crystals and can't melt.

• There may not be enough water vapor in the air.

• Wind pushes rain clouds high into the troposphere causing water to freeze.

• Some clouds form without water.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

weather

• conditions such as rain, clouds, and wind at a particular time and place

• the process by which a liquid changes into a gas

• the process by which a gas changes into a liquid

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6