Water On Earth

Question 1

The Water Cycle

Answer 1

The repeated movement of water through he environment in different forms

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

The changing of liquid to water vapor

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Water vapor turning in to liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

When water falls from clouds as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Water moving downhill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

Water collecting at the lowest point

Question 7

Submilation

Answer 7

Ice changing into water vapor without first melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

When water vapor freezes without first melting

Question 9

Cirrus Clouds

Answer 9

Thin, wispy, white clouds that are made of ice crystals

Question 10

Vertical Clouds

Answer 10

Clouds that form vertically, sometimes called thunderheads or cumulonimbus

Question 11

Alto(cumulus)

Answer 11

Dark bottom clouds b/c little sunlight gets through. Puffy cotton balls and small

Question 12

Stratus

Answer 12

Layered and cover the whole sky, look darker

Question 13

Fog

Answer 13

Stratus clouds at ground level

Question 14

Transpiration

Answer 14

When water evaporates off of plants

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

Liquid water that falls from clouds

Question 16

Sleet

Answer 16

Ice falls from clouds then melts and then freezes again

Question 17

Hail

Answer 17

When ice crystals are in a cloud and then blown by the wind and they connect to form hail

Question 18

Snow

Answer 18

Ice crystals fall as snow if the temp. Is below freezing

Question 19

Freezing Rain

Answer 19

Rain that falls from clouds and then freezes when it hits an object below freezing