Water Cycle Quiz

Where does the water cycle get its energy from?

What does a meteorologist do?

Earth's _______ is the air around you and above you.

A slow moving mass of ice is called a ____________.

Most of the clouds in a photograph of mountains are cirrus clouds. Where do cirrus clouds form?

Which of these is NOT a form of precipitation

What is the purpose of a weather balloon?

Long term weather for a particular place on Earth is called _____________. 

What is the most abundant form of water in the water cycle?

What the atmosphere is like at a given place and time is called _______________.

What types of clouds can signal fair or stormy weather?

What measures wind speed?

What is the main source of the movement of the water cycle?

What type of weather is likely to be found in a polar climate zone?

What are the 3 basic cloud types?

What factors do scientists use to determine the climate for an area?

Where in a tropical climate are you most likely to find cooler weather and snow?

What phase of the water cycle occurs when moisture forms clouds in the atmosphere?

Hail forms from which type of clouds?

Polar, tropical and temperate are the names of what?

Relative humidity is measured with a _____________.

What is the name of the phase of the water cycle that is opposite of condensation?

When water no longer absorbs into the ground and flows across the surface of Earth instead.

What type of weather is likely to be found in a tropical climate?

The process by which water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere.

What is humidity?

Precipitation is defined as what?

What types of clouds signal fair weather?

What is happening when water from the ground is absorbed into the atmosphere?

Where does most of the precipitation on Earth fall?

What part of the water cycle does water fall to Earth's surface?

If human sweat is called PERspiration, what is plant sweat called?

which factor MOST DIRECTLY affects the movement of air? (also known as wind)

A water puddle at 6 am is 10" wide. By lunch the puddle is 3" wide. What process has happened?

What kinds of clouds may signal rain?

At what point in the water cycle is water stored underground and travel to other water sources?

What type of weather is likely to be found in the temperate climate zone?

Rainfall is measured with a __________.

What measures air pressure?