Water On Earth

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Changing of liquid to water vapor

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Water vapor turns into a liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Is water moving downhill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

When water collects at the lowest point

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

Ice changing into water vapor without first melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Water vapor freezes without melting

Question 9

Cirrus Cloud

Answer 9

Thin, wispy, white, made up of ice crystals

Question 10

Vertical Clouds

Answer 10

Form in vertical shape, sometimes called thunderheads

Question 11

(Alto)Cumulus

Answer 11

Bottoms look dark because not s lot of sun light gets through, puffy balls, and small

Question 12

Stratus

Answer 12

Cover the whole sky, look dark because not a lot of sunlight gets through

Question 13

Fog

Answer 13

Really a stratus cloud, on ground level

Question 14

Transpiration

Answer 14

When a plant lets out water and it turns into water vapor

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

They fall from the clouds and then the ice crystals melt in the warm air and become water

Question 16

Freezing Rain

Answer 16

Ice crystals fall the they become rain and then they refreeze on the way down when it becomes below 32 degrees f

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

Ice crystals melt and then they touch objects and freeze and they are hard

Question 18

Snow

Answer 18

It falls from the clouds and it is below 32 degrees f the hole time

Question 19

Hail

Answer 19

Is when the wind blows the clouds ice crystals and they become bigger and then the hail falls