Water On Earth Flashcards

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Evaporation

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Is when the suns heat turns the water into a gas

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Water Cycle

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The reappeared movement of water through the environment.

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Condensation

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Condensation is when water vapor turns back to a liquid.

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Precipitation

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

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Runoff

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Is when water is going down the hill.

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Accumulation

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is when water gets collected by lakes, rivers, or oceans.

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Sublimation

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Ice changes into water vapor gas without melting.

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Frost

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Water vapor gas freezes without turning into a liquid.

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Transpiration

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When a plant moistures and kind of evaporates into the atmosphere

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Cirrus

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Thin, and wispy, white, high-altitude. Will bring fair weather, and made out of ice crystals.

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Vertical clouds

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Bring thunderstorms, sometimes called thunderheads / Cumulonimbus.

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Cumulus Cloud

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Mid-altitude looks dark on bottom b/c little sunlight gets through.IT is also small and puffy.

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Stratus

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Low-altitude covers the sky layered and looks dark.

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Fog

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Gray and is made of ice crystals and is a stratus cloud close to the ground.

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Rain

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It is When ice crystals start to fall and the degrees is above 32˚F.

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Hail

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Its when ice crystals get tossed up and down until the cloud can’t hold them anymore.

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Freezing rain

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Freezing rain happens when when ice crystals start falling and when it touches something on the ground like a car that is below 32˚F.

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Sleet

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Sleet forms when water droplets start of in the air in air that is above 0˚C, and then it goes down to below 0˚c.

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SNow

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ITs when ice crystals fall from the cloud