Weather and the water cycle

Clouds, storms, weather tools and the four stages of the water cycle: twenty-four clues from cumulus and cirrus to barometer, anemometer and drought. Use Summit Scramble for a weather-unit review, or Clue Bingo with the clues read aloud while students look out the window at the real thing.

Games with this list

• Clue Bingo
• Match Up
• Summit Scramble
• I Have, Who Has?
• Talk Around It
• Act, Draw or Say
• Claim the Grid
• Quiz Night

The list

	Clue	Answer
1	Water falling from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail	Precipitation
2	The sun heats water and turns it into vapor	Evaporation
3	Water vapor cools into tiny drops that form clouds	Condensation
4	Water gathers in oceans, lakes and rivers	Collection
5	The journey water takes between land, sea and sky	Water cycle
6	Puffy white clouds that look like cotton balls	Cumulus
7	Flat gray clouds that cover the sky like a blanket	Stratus
8	Thin, wispy clouds high in the sky	Cirrus
9	Tall towering clouds that bring thunderstorms	Cumulonimbus
10	Measures temperature	Thermometer
11	Measures how much rain falls	Rain gauge
12	Measures wind speed	Anemometer
13	Measures air pressure	Barometer
14	The amount of water vapor in the air	Humidity
15	A prediction of the weather	Forecast
16	A spinning column of air that touches the ground	Tornado
17	A huge tropical storm with very strong winds	Hurricane
18	A giant spark of electricity in a storm	Lightning
19	The sound made by lightning	Thunder
20	Balls of ice that fall during some thunderstorms	Hail
21	A cloud that forms near the ground	Fog
22	A long time with little or no rain	Drought
23	The usual weather of a place over many years	Climate
24	A scientist who studies and predicts weather	Meteorologist

More science topics

• Planets and the solar system
• The human body
• Animal groups and habitats
• States of matter
• The first 20 elements
• Plants and how they grow
• Rocks and the Earth
• Dinosaurs