Water On Earth

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The constant movement of water around the earth

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

When water changes from liquid to gas

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

When water vapor turns to liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Water moving down hill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

Water collecting at the lowest point

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

Is ice changing into water vapor without first melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Ice crystals that form when the temperature is below freezing

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

Evaporation of water from plant leaves

Question 10

Cirrus clouds

Answer 10

A thin, wispy, white, cloud made of ice crystals. Altitude- 12,000meters

Question 11

Vertical Clouds

Answer 11

Clouds that form vertically sometimes called thunder heads or cumulonimbus. Altitude- 8,000

Question 12

Cumulus

Answer 12

A puffy, white, cotton ball cloud where the bottom looks dark because little sunlight get through. Altitude- 6,000

Question 13

Stratus cloud

Answer 13

A cloud where it is layered and covered the whole sky and looks darker Altitude- 2,000

Question 14

Fog

Answer 14

A stratus cloud at ground level

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

A liquid that falls from clouds when it is above 32f

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

When water droplets start to fall from the cloud and then enter an area where it is below 32f and freeze into snow!!!

Question 17

Hail

Answer 17

When in a thunderhead cloud the ice crystals form + start to fall from the cloud but wind pushes the ice crystals back up into the clouds and when the ice crystals start to fall again, they grow and the process keeps happening until the hailstones become to big for the wind to push back up into the clouds so they start to fall down back out of the cloud again.

Question 18

Freezing Rain

Answer 18

When it starts to rain and when it’s hits an object under 32f it freezes and becomes freezing rain!!!!

Question 19

Sleet

Answer 19

When water falls from a cloud and enters an area where it is above 32f and turns into rain then the rain enters and area where it is below 32f and turns into sleet.