Water Cycle Flashcards

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Water cycle

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The process of water becoming different forms (never stops)

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Evaporation

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The process of water becoming water vapor liquid to gas

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Condensation

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The process of water becoming clouds liquid to liquid

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Precepetation

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The process of water becoming rain liquid to liquid/solid

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Sublimation

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The process of ice becoming water vapor before melting

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Runoff

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The process of water going down hill

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Water vapor

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A form of water as a gas

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Transpiration

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The process of when plants sweat, or release water into the air

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Fog

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A cloud that is thick forming at ground level

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Cumulus

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A cloud at about 6,000 m in the sky are dark and flat

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Stratus

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A cloud at about 2,000 to 4,000 m in the sky is bringing light rain

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Cirrus

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A cloud bringing fair weather at a high altitude

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Vertical cloud

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A cloud going up, the highest cloud

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Rain

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Precipitation that is liquid, temp. is above freezing

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Hail

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Blocks of ice pushed to the top of a cloud until it is to heavy to go up more and it falls, mainly is summer

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Snow

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A form of ice crystals that stay in the same temp. the whole fall, combines

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Sleet

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A form of precipitation that meals, freezes, and falls also known as frozen raindrop

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Frozen rain

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Melts, goes is cold air, and freezes when touches a object bellow freezing