Water On Earth

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

Repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Changing of liquid water to gas

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

When water vapor turns to liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

When water falls from clouds as water, ice, snow, or hail

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

When water moves downhill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

When water collects at the lowest

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

When water turns to ice without first melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Forms when water vapor freezes without becoming a liquid

Question 9

Cirrus Clouds

Answer 9

Thin, wispy, white

Made of ice crystals

Question 10

Vertical clouds

Answer 10

For vertically

Sometimes called thunderheads or cumulonimbus

Question 11

Cumulus

Answer 11

Also known as alto clouds
Bottoms dark
Small
Look like cotton balls

Question 12

Stratus

Answer 12

Layered and cover whole sky

Look dark

Question 13

Fog

Answer 13

Stratus clouds at ground level

Question 14

Transpiration

Answer 14

Process of water evaporating from plants

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

Liquid water that falls from clouds

Question 16

Sleet

Answer 16

Ice falls from clouds then it 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

Question 19

Freezing Rain

Answer 19

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