The Water Cycle

Question 1

Water cycle

Answer 1

The repeated movement through Earth in different forms

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

The changing of liquid water to water vapor

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Water vapor turns into liquid water

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

Question 5

Sublimation

Answer 5

Ice changing into water vapor without first melting

Question 6

Runoff

Answer 6

Water moving downhill

Question 7

Water vapor

Answer 7

Water as a invisible gas

Question 8

Transpiration

Answer 8

The process where plants absorb water through their roots and give off water vapor through their leaves

Question 9

Fog

Answer 9

A ground level cloud, misty, gray, forms when it’s cold at ground level.

Question 10

Cumulus

Answer 10

Puffy, white, looks like a cotton ball, low altitude, brings fair weather

Question 11

Stratus

Answer 11

Looks like a gray blanket over the sky, low altitude, brings rainy weather

Question 12

Cirrus

Answer 12

Thin, wispy, white, high altitude, brings fair weather, looks like a feather.

Question 13

Vertical cloud

Answer 13

High altitude, grow a vertically, brings thunderstorms, called thunderhead and cumulonimbus

Question 14

Rain

Answer 14

Droplets of water that falls from a cloud

Question 15

Hail

Answer 15

Ice crystal that goes through a cloud many times and gets bigger.

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

Starts and remains as an ice crystal as long as the the temperature is 35 F or 0 C

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

Falls through cold air and freezes, frozen raindrop

Question 18

Freezing rain

Answer 18

Raindrops that freeze when they touch a object