Science Test on Clouds, Water Cycle, Weather

Station

Science Test on Clouds, Water Cycle, Weather Station

1. _____Clouds form in blanklet-like layers

Stratus

Clouds

2. Puffy clouds that appear to rise up from a flat bottom

are ________ cloudsCumulus

3. _____ Clouds form at high altitudes out of ice

crystals and have a wispy featherlike shape.

Cirus

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

sky it ____ and may form _____

CondensesClouds

6. All clouds form in the

_____________________

or the lowest layer of the atmosphere.

troposphere

7. Clouds are grouped in families by their __________and _________Shape Height

8._________Clouds are usually present during fair weather, but can turn into

thunderclouds

Cumulus

Play the cloud matching game http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloudmatch.html

9. The __________is most responsible for our weather and warming the water and

land.

Sun

The Water Cycle

10. ____________Water which accumulates on the soil surface as a result of rainfall and flows over the soil surface from higher to lower

land.

Run-off

11. The process of liquid becoming water vapor as it leaves the earth’s surface and enter the atmosphere is called __________Evaporation

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

___________________into

the _______________air

evaporates

Warm

14. A puddle may change shape and become smaller

on a hot sunny day because it is changing from a ______to a _____which

we call, evaporationliquid gas

15. _________energy, or energy from the sun is the type of energy responsible

for evaporation.

Solar

16. When warm air full of water vapor meet cool air, _________ occurs in the form of tiny water droplets, similar to the

droplets we found on the outside of our glasses.

condensation

17. Tiny water droplets attach to dust particles in

the sky and form

______________________Clouds

18. A ______________measures the pressure in the air

Barometer

Weather Station

Look at the pointer on the barometer. 1. What type weather will you have based on the barometric pressure?

Barometer

2. What number would the pointer be on to tell us it is going to be a sunny day?

Cloudy 1030 barometric pressure

humidity

19. A hygrometer measures

____________________or the moisture in the air

Bonus: If the temperature is zero degrees, then what would reading would be on the hydrometer? 25%

If it is zero degrees outside, would it be winter or summer?

Winter

20. A _________is a glass tube that measures

the air temperature.

Thermometer

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

___________________or people that study the weather and deep data

about its patterns

meteorologist

22. To find the average monthly temperature for Raleigh, NC you would

_____the temperature for each day and then

______the sum the total number of days in the

month.

add

divide

Mon 750

Tue 740

Wed 760

Thurs 750

Fri 730

Sat 770

Sun 750

Total 525

527÷7 = 750

23. Warm air rises and is

called ________updrafts

24. A_________

is cool air falling back

to the earth’s surface.

Drown draft

25. Air that moves horizontally is called

_________. It is created by the heating and cooling rates of soil and water.

wind

26. The weight of air can also be called air

________. A high pressure system will usually be followed

by sunshine.

pressure

Where is the high pressureMoving toward? East, West, North or south?

Moving East

27. The thinner air affects temperature because thin

air holds less

___________.heat

28. _________ usually follows a high pressure system. Which picture

represents this statement

Sunshine, A

29. High winds will most likely cause temperatures

to _______________decrease

30. The temperature at the______of the mountain is

cooler that the temperature at the ________ of the

mountain.

top

bottom

Mountain goats go (migrate) up the mountain in the summer to cool off.

Mountains, Sea breezes & latitude

31. As you get closer to the center of the Earth or the _________ temperatures tend to be warmer, these areas are called tropical.

equator

equator

32. Sue lives in Oklahoma and has no large bodies of water near her. Sue most likely experiences warm ______and cool winters. Tom lives

near the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, California (CA) where temperatures are less varied from

season to season.

summers

33. In our soil and water experiment, the soil

represented the _______ and the water represented

lakes and oceans.

earth

34. Soil tends to heat up and cool down fast while

______takes longer to heat but holds the warmth longer.

water

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 ______more quickly than _____.soil 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______2nd time______3rd time______

Great Job!!!