Water On Earth

Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The continuous cycle in which water changes from water vapor in the atmosphere to liquid water through condensation and precipitation and then back to water vapor through evaporation, transpiration, and respiration.

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Evaporation is defined as the process of a liquid changing into a gas.

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

When water vapor turns from a gas to a liquid

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Examples: Hail, rain, sleet, snow

Question 5

Runoff

Answer 5

The water that runs into lakes, rivers, ponds, ect after precipitation.

Question 6

Accumulation

Answer 6

When the water gathers into big area of water.

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

When ice evaporates without first melting

Question 8

Frost

Answer 8

When white ice crystals form on objects when its below freezing.

Question 9

Transpiration

Answer 9

When condensation sweats out of plants.

Question 10

Cirrus Clouds

Answer 10

Are the highest clouds and are thin and wispy.

Question 11

Vertical Clouds

Answer 11

They are long and dark and can cause thunderstorms. They have two other names. Cumulonimbus and Thunderheads

Question 12

Cumulus clouds

Answer 12

They are white and big and puffy.

Question 13

Stratus Clouds

Answer 13

They are layered and fill up the entire sky.

Question 14

Fog

Answer 14

Fog is a ground level cloud that is hard to see through.

Question 15

Rain

Answer 15

Water droplets coming out of the sky.

Question 16

Sleet

Answer 16

Rain that is already frozen before it hits the ground.

Question 17

Snow

Answer 17

Frozen water vapor frozen ice crystals falling from clouds.

Question 18

Freezing Rain

Answer 18

Rain that freezes when it hits an object under 32F

Question 19

Hail

Answer 19

Ice crystals that can be bigger than a golf ball that fall from the sky.