Water On Earth

Question 1

Water cycle

Answer 1

The repeated movement of the environment bin different forms

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

The changing of liquid to water vapor

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

When water vapor turns into liquid such as water droplets in clouds

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

When water falls from clouds as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Water moving downhill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

When water is collected at its lowest point

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

When ice changes into water without first melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

When water vapor freezes without becoming a liquid

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

The process when plants leaves water evaporate

Question 10

Cirrus clouds

Answer 10

Thin, wispy, white, and made of ice crystals

Question 11

Vertical clouds

Answer 11

Com times called thunderheads and they form vertically

Question 12

Cumulus clouds

Answer 12

Bottoms dark b/c not much sunlight gets through, small, and look like puffy balls

Question 13

Stratus cloud

Answer 13

Layered and cover the whole sky and look dark

Question 14

Fog

Answer 14

Stratus clouds at ground level

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

Liquid water that falls from clouds

Question 16

Sleet

Answer 16

Ice falls from clouds then melts, and then freezes again

Question 17

Hail

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Snow

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Freezing rain

Answer 19

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