Water On Earth

Question 1

Water cycle

Answer 1

The repeated movement of water in the ecosystem

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

When water changes form a liquid to gas.

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

What water vapor turns into water.

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

When water falls from a cloud as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Water that is moving down hill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

Water collecting at the lowest point

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

Ice turning into water vapor before it touches the ground

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Water vapor that freezes without becoming a gas

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

When water from plant leaves evaporates

Question 10

Stratus clouds

Answer 10

Layered clouds that cover the sky. They look dark

Question 11

Fog

Answer 11

Stratus clouds at ground level

Question 12

(Alto) cumulus

Answer 12

Bottoms look dark because little sunlight gets through. Puffy, cotton, balls. Small

Question 13

Vertical clouds

Answer 13

Form vertically. Sometimes called thunderheads or cumulonimbus

Question 14

Cirrus clouds

Answer 14

Thin, wispy, white. Made of ice crystals

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

When ice crystals fall and melt through warm air.

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

When ice crystals fall through air that is at freezing point

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

When ice crystals melt then freeze again in the air

Question 18

Hail

Answer 18

When ice crystals join together and wind pushes them up to the top of the cloud

Question 19

Freezing rain

Answer 19

When ice crystals melt and freeze when they hit and object at freezing point.