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Science Test on Clouds, Water Cycle, Weather Station
Science Test on Clouds,
Water Cycle, Weather
Station
Clouds
1. _____Clouds form in
blanklet-like layers
Stratus
2. Puffy clouds that appear
to rise up from a flat bottom
Cumulus clouds
are ________
3. Cirus
_____ Clouds form at
high altitudes out of ice
crystals and have a wispy
featherlike shape.
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
Condenses
sky it ____
Clouds
and may form _____
6. All clouds form in the
troposphere
_____________________
or the lowest layer of the
atmosphere.
7. Clouds are grouped in
families by their
Shape
Height
__________and
_________
Cumulus
8._________Clouds
are
usually present during fair
weather, but can turn into
thunderclouds
Play the cloud matching game
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloudmatch.html
The Water Cycle
Sun
9. The __________is most
responsible for our weather
and warming the water and
land.
Run-off
10. ____________Water
which
accumulates on the soil surface as a
result of rainfall and flows over the
soil surface from higher to lower
land.
Evaporation
11. The process of liquid
becoming water vapor as it
leaves the earth’s surface and
enter the atmosphere is called
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
evaporates
___________________into
Warm
the _______________air
14. A puddle may change
shape and become smaller
on a hot sunny day
because it is changing from
gas
liquid
a ______to
a _____which
we call, evaporation
Solar
15. _________energy,
or
energy from the sun is the
type of energy responsible
for evaporation.
16. When warm air full of
water vapor meet cool air,
condensation
_________
occurs
in the form of tiny water
droplets, similar to the
droplets we found on the
outside of our glasses.
17. Tiny water droplets
attach to dust particles in
the sky and form
______________________
Clouds
Weather Station
Barometer
18. A ______________
measures the pressure in
the air
Barometer
Look at the pointer on
the barometer.
1. What type weather
will you have based on
the barometric pressure?
Cloudy
2. What number would the pointer be
on to tell us it is going to be a sunny
day?
1030 barometric pressure
19. A hygrometer
measures
humidity
____________________
or the moisture in the air
Bonus: If the temperature is
zero degrees, then what would
reading would be on the
25%
hydrometer?
If it is zero degrees outside, would it
be winter or summer?
Winter
Thermometer
20. A _________
is a glass tube that measures
the air temperature.
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
meteorologist
___________________
or people that study the
weather and deep data
about its patterns
750
Tue
740
Wed 760
Thurs 750
Fri
730
Sat
770
Sun 750
Total 525
Mon
22. To find the average
monthly temperature for
Raleigh, NC you would
add
_____the
temperature for
each day and then
______the
sum the total
divide
number of days in the 527÷7 = 75
month.
0
23. Warm air
rises and is
called
________
updrafts
24.
Drown draft
A_________
is cool air
falling back
to the earth’s
surface.
25. Air that moves
horizontally is called
_________. It is created by
wind
the heating and cooling
rates of soil and water.
26. The weight of air
can also be called air
pressure
________. A high
pressure system will
usually be followed
by sunshine.
Where is the high pressure
Moving toward? East, West,
North or south?
Moving East
27. The thinner air affects
temperature because thin
air holds less
heat
___________.
Sunshine, A usually
28. _________
follows a high pressure
system. Which picture
represents this statement
29. High winds will most
likely cause temperatures
decrease
to _______________
Mountains, Sea breezes & latitude
30. The temperature at the
top
______of
the mountain is
cooler that the temperature
bottom of the
at the ________
mountain.
Mountain goats go (migrate) up the mountain in the summer to cool off.
equator
31. As you get closer to the center of the
equator
Earth or the _________ temperatures
tend to be warmer, these areas are called
tropical.
32. Sue lives in Oklahoma and has
no large bodies of water near her.
Sue most likely experiences warm
summers
______and cool winters. Tom lives
near the Pacific Ocean in San
Francisco, California (CA) where
temperatures are less varied from
season to season.
33. In our soil and water
experiment, the soil
earth
represented the _______
and the water represented
lakes and oceans.
34. Soil tends to heat up and
cool down fast while
water
______takes
longer to heat
but holds the warmth longer.
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
soil
______more
quickly than _____.
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______
nd
2 time______
rd
3 time______
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