Water And Earth Flashcards
Water cycle
1) steps of water
Evaporation
2) when hot water and low pressure take water up in the air and form a cloud
Condensation
3) water that is collected.
Precipitation
4)the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.
Runoff
5) when water goes down hill
Accumulation
6) gathering of water
Sublimation
7) when anything soiled turns into a gas
Frost
8) a disposit of small ice crystals
Vertical cloud
Cloud that brings storms
Know as thunderheads
Cumulus clouds
Clouds that are usually on a sunny day
The bottoms are dark because little sun light gets through
Stratus cloud
They are horizontal, and a layer the whole sky
Fog
A cloud that it’s ground level
Rain
Ice crystals that fall from the cloud that melt while they’re on their way down
Snow
Water vapor frozen ice crystals
Sleet
Ice pellets
Hail
Freezing rain
Freezing rain
Falls from the clouds as ice crystals and then as water droplets and then if it’s 32° or below then it will turn into freezing rain