Download Water Cycle and Weather Vocabulary

Water Cycle
the movement of water from
Earth to the air and back again
Evaporation
the process by which liquid water
changes into water vapor
Condensation
the changing of a gas into tiny
drops of water
Precipitation
water that falls from the sky (rain,
snow, sleet, hail)
Sun
the star around which the earth
orbits
Weather
what the air outside is like
Pattern
a repeated design
Cloud
visible mass of small water droplets or ice
particles in the sky
Snow
precipitation in the form of ice crystals
A dense layer of cloud lying close to the
surface of the ground or water
a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere
often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and
lightning
Flood
an overflow of water that submerges land
which is usually dry
a current of air
Icy
a solid consisting of frozen water
Celsius and
Fahrenheit
scale of temperature
Thermometer
a tool used to measure
temperature