The Water Cycle Flashcards
Water Cycle
The repeated movement of water through Earth and different forms.
Evaporation
The changing of liquid water to water vapor.
Condensation
When the water vapor turns into liquid clouds form.
Transpirtation
The process where plants obsorb (drink) water through their roots and give off water vapor through their leaves (sweat)
Precipitation
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
Sublimation
When anything solid turns into a gas without first becoming a liquid.
Runoff
The drawing away of water from the surface of an area of land.
water vapor
Water vapor is the gaseous phase of water.
Transpiration
Is when a plant absorbs water in it’s roots.
Fog
A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere.
Cumulus
A cloud forming rounded masses heaped on each other.
Stratus
Cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.
Cirrus
Cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks at high altitude usually 16,500 to 45,000 feet 5-13 km.
Vertical cloud
A vertical cloud is the phrase used to describe the optimization of a cloud.
Rain
Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
Hail
Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
Snow
Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
Sleet
A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
Freezing rain
The name of rain that falls when the surface temperature are below freezing unlike sleet freezing rain is made of a mixture of rain and snow.
