Water On Earth Flashcards

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Water cycle

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Water cycle is when a water droplet from some place evaporate to the sky

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Evaporation

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Evaporation is a water droplet evaporates to the sky and then groups up in one whole sky then transforms

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Precipitation

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Precipitation means that right when the water droplets are really really high to the sky and then it falls all down

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Runoff

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Runoff means that when they fall down then it falls all the way down and then it does it again

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Accumulation

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Accumulation means that when you are always repeating the water cycle

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Sublimation

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Sublimation is when you are already a droplet and that you go high to the atmosphere

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Frost

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Frost is like when you are the water droplet if you turn into ice but then you can still evaporate in the clouds

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Transpiration

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Transpiration is that when you are evaporating and that is when you fell so ticklish

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Cirrus clouds

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Cirrus clouds are puffy clouds and they do rare rain falls

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Vertical clouds

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Vertical clouds are the main really high clouds on earth and they are darker

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Cumulus clouds

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Cumulus clouds are mainly kind of low but they are like at 6,000 meters high for the clouds and they look really light

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Stratus clouds

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Stratus clouds are going to be like in medium level for the height for the clouds and they make a lot of rain

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Fog

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Fog is at 0 metes o height because it is in the ground and they have super little droplets in the little fogs

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Condensation

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Condensation is when you are evaporating so much that it just can’t stop

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Rain

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Rain comes from clouds and water vapor when they group all up

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Snow

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Snow is from precipitation and from when they don’t melt

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Sleet

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Sleet is freezing rain

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Hail

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Hail is some ice that is really hard