Water on Earth

Question 1

Water cycle

Answer 1

The Water Cycle is the journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Changing of liquid water to water vapor

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Water vapor turns into a liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Rain falling in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

Water moving downhill

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

Water collects at the lowest point

Question 7

Submilation

Answer 7

When ice changes into water vapor without melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

Water vapor freezes without changing into a liquid

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

Transpiration is the process where plants absorb water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves

Question 10

Cirrus

Answer 10

Thin, wispy, white, high altitude, fair weather

Question 11

Vertical clouds

Answer 11

Thunderstorms, thunderheads, cumulonimbus

Question 12

Cumulus

Answer 12

Mid altitude, dark on bottom, little sunlight gets through, small puffy

Question 13

Stratus

Answer 13

Low altitude, cover sky, layered, dark

Question 14

Fog

Answer 14

Ground level, stratus cloud

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

The liquid form of precipitation

Question 16

Snow

Answer 16

water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer

Question 17

Sleet

Answer 17

Frozen rain often mixed with rain or snow

Question 18

Hail

Answer 18

frozen rain that falls in showers from cumulonimbus clouds

Question 19

Freezing rain

Answer 19

Rain that freezes when it touches an object 32 degrees