Water on Earth

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Water vapor disappearing into the atmosphere

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Water vapor turning into clouds

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Water vapor turning into liquid and falling to the ground

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Runoff is when water seeps out of a river into another body of water

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

Where water collects at the lowest point

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase without passing through the intermediate liquid phase.

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Frozen groundwater

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

Transpiration is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere

Question 10

Fog

Answer 10

A cloud at ground level

Question 11

Cumulonimbus

Answer 11

Also know as Thunderheads and vertical clouds and they cause bad weather

Question 12

Cirrus

Answer 12

Cirrus clouds are thin and wispy and they represent fair weather

Question 13

Stratus

Answer 13

They have horizontal layers and are low in the sky

Question 14

Cumulus

Answer 14

They are big and puffy and bring nice weather

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

Liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

Precipitation in the form of flakes

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.

Question 18

Hail

Answer 18

Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 19

Freezing Rain

Answer 19

Freezing rain is the name given to rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing