Water On Earth

Question 1

water cycle

Answer 1

Is the repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms.

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Is the changing of liquid water to water vapor.

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Is when the water vapor turns into liquid.

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Is when the water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Surface runoff is water moving downhill.

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

When water collects at the lowest point.

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

Is ice changing into water vapor without first melting.

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Is water vapor freezing without becoming liquid.

Question 9

Cirrus

Answer 9

There thin, wispy, white and made out of ice crystals.

Question 10

Verticals clouds

Answer 10

Form vertically and are sometimes called thunderheads or cumulonimbus.

Question 11

Cumulus

Answer 11

Bottoms look dark because little sunlight gets through. There small and are called puffy cotton balls.

Question 12

Stratus

Answer 12

There layered and cover the whole sky. Look darker.

Question 13

Fog

Answer 13

Fog is a stratus cloud at ground.

Question 14

Rain

Answer 14

LIQUID WATER THAT FALLS FROM CLOUDS

Question 15

Hail

Answer 15

Falls from clouds when it is too heavy for clouds to hold it

Question 16

Sleet

Answer 16

Ice falls from clouds then melts, then freezes again

Question 17

Snow

Answer 17

Ice crystals fall as snow if the temp. Is below 32 degrees F

Question 18

Freezing rain

Answer 18

Rain that falls from clouds then freezes as it hits an object below 32 degrees F