Water Cycle Flashcards

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Water cycle

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Constant movement of water through out the atmosphere and earth

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Evaporation

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The process of water turning to water vapor

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Condensation

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

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Precipitation

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Water falling from the clouds.

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Runoff

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The draining of water going downhill.

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Accumulation

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The gathering or build up of weather.

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Sublimation

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When anything turns into a gas without first becoming a liquid.

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Frost

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Small ice crystals

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Transpiration

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The process where plants absorb there water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in there leaves.

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Cirrus clouds

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A wispy cloud that is very high up in the air

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Cumulonimbus

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Cloud forming at a large mass flat bass and low altitude.

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Cumulus

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Cloud forming a rounded mass at low altitude

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Stratus clouds

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Cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet

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Fog

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A thick cloud of tiny water droplets

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Rain

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Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly

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Snow

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Frozen ice crystals

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Sleet

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A form of precipitation ice pellets

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Hail

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Pellets of frozen rain that fall in forms of ice pellets

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Freezing rain

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Rain that falls below freezing