The Water Cycle

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The cycle of water throughout the Earth, and the processes that water is put through, for example, evaporation and condensation.

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

When liquid water turns into water vapor, from a liquid to a gas.

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

When water vapor becomes liquid water in the form of clouds or dew.

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

When water comes down as a solid or a liquid, in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

Question 5

Sublimation

Answer 5

When Ice changes to water without first melting, such as when you put ice cubes in the freezer and they shrink.

Question 6

Runoff

Answer 6

When water moves downhill, such as rain moving down a mountain.

Question 7

Water Vapor

Answer 7

Water in the form of a gas. Water Vapor is always surrounding us.

Question 8

Transpiration

Answer 8

Transpiration is the process of water, traveling through the plant, moving to the leaves, and then evaporating as water vapor into the atmosphere.

Question 9

Fog

Answer 9

Fog is a cloud based at ground level., it forms when air near the ground cools, the more water droplets that condense, the thicker the cloud.

Question 10

Cumulus

Answer 10

Cumulus clouds are based at mid-altitude, they look like a small white, puffy cotton ball, and they bring fair weather.

Question 11

Stratus

Answer 11

Stratus clouds are low-altitude clouds. They look like a gray blanket covering the sky, and they bring light rain/drizzles.

Question 12

Cirrus

Answer 12

Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy, and white. They are high-altitude clouds, they bring fair weather and they look like a feather.

Question 13

Vertical Clouds/Thunder Heads/Cumulonimbus

Answer 13

Vertical Clouds are found literally at all altitudes, ranging from 1000-12000 meters. They can be very dark in color and they bring thunderstorms.