The Water Cycle

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The water cycle is called the hydrologic cycle. In the hydrologic cycle, water from oceans, lakes, swamps, rivers, plants, and even you, can turn into water vapor. Water vapor condenses into millions of tiny droplets that form clouds. Clouds lose their water as rain or snow, which is called precipitation.

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Evaporation is a type of vaporization of a liquid that occurs from the surface of a liquid into a gaseous phase that is not saturated with the evaporating substance.

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.

Question 4

Sublimation

Answer 4

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase without passing through the intermediate liquid phase.

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

The draining away of water (or substances carried in it.)

Question 6

Precipitation

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Water Vapor

Answer 7

It is one state of water within the hydrosphere.

Question 8

Transpiration

Answer 8

Transpiration is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere.

Question 9

Fog

Answer 9

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface that obscures or restricts visibility.

Question 10

Cumulus

Answer 10

A cloud forming rounded masses heaped on each other above a flat base at fairly low altitude.

Question 11

Stratus

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Cirrus

Answer 12

cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks.

Question 13

Vertical cloud

Answer 13

Is the phrase used to describe the optimization of cloud computing and cloud services for a particular vertical or specific application use.

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 that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Freezing rain

Answer 18

rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing.