The Water Cycle

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The repeated movement of water through Earth and different forms.

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

The changing of liquid water to water vapor.

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

When the water vapor turns into liquid clouds form.

Question 4

Transpirtation

Answer 4

The process where plants obsorb (drink) water through their roots and give off water vapor through their leaves (sweat)

Question 5

Precipitation

Answer 5

Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.

Question 6

Sublimation

Answer 6

When anything solid turns into a gas without first becoming a liquid.

Question 7

Runoff

Answer 7

The drawing away of water from the surface of an area of land.

Question 8

water vapor

Answer 8

Water vapor is the gaseous phase of water.

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

Is when a plant absorbs water in it’s roots.

Question 10

Fog

Answer 10

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere.

Question 11

Cumulus

Answer 11

A cloud forming rounded masses heaped on each other.

Question 12

Stratus

Answer 12

Cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.

Question 13

Cirrus

Answer 13

Cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks at high altitude usually 16,500 to 45,000 feet 5-13 km.

Question 14

Vertical cloud

Answer 14

A vertical cloud is the phrase used to describe the optimization of a cloud.

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.

Question 16

Hail

Answer 16

Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 17

Snow

Answer 17

Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.

Question 18

Sleet

Answer 18

A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.

Question 19

Freezing rain

Answer 19

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.