SCBM2510P4

  1. What the air is like outside is called?
    Weather
  2. A cloud that looks like puffy white cotton is called....
    Cumulus
  3. A thin, feathery cloud that is found high in the sky.
    Cirrus
  4. A low gray cloud that stretches across the sky is called a _______________ cloud.
    Stratus
  5. A group of tiny droplets of what that condensed from the air is called?
    Clouds
  6. What is temperature?
    How warm or cold the air is.
  7. A tool that is used to measure temperature is called?
    Thermometer
  8. Water is an gas state is called?
    Water Vapor
  9. To change from a liquid into a gas is called?
    Evaporate
  10. The way water moves from the air to loand and back again is called?
    Water cycle
  11. What season brings warmer, wetter weather that helps plants grow and make flowers is called?
    Spring
  12. What season brings hot, sunny weather?
    Summer
  13. What storms make weather change quickly?
    Thunderstorms
  14. What season brings cooler air?
    Fall
  15. What happens to the trees in the fall?
    Leaves change color and fall off.
  16. What season brings the coldest time of the year?
    Winter
  17. What is the energy that makes the water cycle happen?
    The sun
  18. The _______________________ is the way water keeps moving from the air to the land and back to the air.
    Water cycle
  19. The sun's heat makes water _____________________.
    Evaporate
  20. When water drops become heavey and fall to earth it is called ___________ or _____________.
    rain or snow
  21. When water evaporates it changes into _______________.
    Gas
  22. When water vapor meets cool air, it condenses to form ______________________.
    Tiny drops of water.
  23. In the water cycle, when tiny drops of water come together they form into _________?
    clouds
  24. The rain and melted snow flow into what? Name three things.
    streams, lakes, and oceans
  25. The people that study weather are called?
    Meteorologists
  26. __________________________ use many tools to measure weather.
    Meteorologists
  27. Measuring ______________ conditions help people know how to dress when they go outside.
    weather
  28. Looking at ___________ is a way people predict weather.
    clouds
  29. Clouds give ________ about how the weather may change.
    clues
  30. __________ clouds bring rain or snow.
    Stratus
  31. __________ clouds can be seen during sunny weather.
    Cirrus
  32. When _________ clouds pile up and turn gray they can bring thunderstorms.
    Cumulus
Author
studyhelper2
ID
18916
Card Set
SCBM2510P4
Description
Science Benchmark 2nd Grade May 2010 Part 4
Updated