Water On Earht Flashcards

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Water Cycle

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Repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms

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Evaporation

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When the sun warms water and turns into water vapor

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Condensation

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When water vapor turns into a cloud

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Precipitation

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When water falls from the cloud in either rain snow sleet or hail

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Runoff

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Water moving down hill

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Accumulation

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Water collecting in the lowest point

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Subilation

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Ice turning into water without first melting

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Frost

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Water vapor freezes without turning into liquid

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Cirrus clouds

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Cirrus clouds are high up they are 6,000 meters high in the sky they are thin and wispy and made up of ice crystals

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Vertical clouds

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Form vertically some times called thunderheads or cumulonimbus

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Cumulus clouds

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Look like small puffy balls bottom look dark because little sunlight gets through

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Stratus clouds

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Clover the whole sky and layered

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Fog

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Stratus clouds but at ground level

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Transpiration

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When water from plant leaves evaporate

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Rain

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When liquid falls from a cloud

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Snow

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When water is frozen and falls from a cloud

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Sleet

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Frozen ice balls

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Hail

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When very strong wind blows upward into a cloud