Name Date CHAPTER

Concept Map

Changes in Weather
Complete the concept map with information that you
learned about the events in the water cycle. Some
information has been written for you.

1. The Sun
heats
water, causing it to
evaporate
from Earth’s lakes,
rivers, and oceans.

2. When water 5. Precipitation,

evaporates, it forms such as rain,
tiny drops called
snow ,
water vapor , or sleet, falls into
The Water Cycle
which cannot be Earth’s
seen.
oceans, rivers, and

lakes .

3. Water vapor 4. Clouds form

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when water vapor

rises
into the condenses
around tiny
atmosphere .
dust
particles in the air.

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Outline

Weather
Use your textbook to help you fill in the blanks below.

What is weather?

1. Weather is what the air is like in the

lowest layer of the atmosphere at a certain time and
place.

2. Air is a(n) gas that takes up space and

can move things.

3. The air that surrounds Earth makes up part of

the atmosphere .

4. Earth’s atmosphere consists of layers of gases

and some dust .

5. The measure of how hot or cold something is can be

found by taking its temperature .

How can you describe the weather?

6. Weather is described in terms of amounts of

precipitation and wind , as well as
air pressure
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and air temperature.

7. Water that falls from the atmosphere to the

ground is called precipitation.

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