The Water Cycle

Question 1

Water cycle

Answer 1

The continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to liquid

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

The process in which water particles change from a liquid to a gas

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

The process in which water participles change from a gas to a liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Water in the atmosphere that falls to Earth as rain, snow, hail, or sleet

Question 5

Sublimation

Answer 5

Ice changing into water vapor without first melting.

Question 6

Runoff

Answer 6

The water that flows over Earth’s surface but does not evaporate or soak into the ground

Question 7

Water vapor

Answer 7

A gas in the Earth’s atmosphere

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 cloud that forms at ground level and restricts visibility

Question 10

Cumulus

Answer 10

A puffy cloud that appears to rise from a flat bottom

Question 11

Stratus

Answer 11

A cloud that forms in a blanket like layer

Question 12

Cirrus

Answer 12

A high altitude cloud with a feather like shape made of ice crystals

Question 13

Vertical cloud

Answer 13

Thunder heads cumulonimbus grow vertically stretch from 1,000 to 12,000 meters

Question 14

Rain

Answer 14

Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops

Question 15

Hail

Answer 15

Pellets of frozen rain

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets

Question 18

Freezing Rain

Answer 18

Rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing