Evaporation
The process when water turns from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
What is the process called when water vapor turns back into liquid water?
What is condensation?
The process when water falls from the sky as rain, snow, or hail?
What is precipitation?
The process that moves water from the ocean to the sky and back to the ground.
What is the water cycle?
The amount of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.
What is 70%?
When the sun heats up water in lakes, rivers, or oceans, what does it cause the water to do?
What is evaporate?
What do we call the tiny droplets of water that form on a cold glass when you leave it outside on a warm day?
What are water droplets (or dew)?
The type of precipitation that forms when water freezes in the clouds and falls as frozen ice crystals.
What is snow?
The largest type of body of water on Earth, containing saltwater and covering most of the planet.
What is the ocean?
The states of matter that water can exist in.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
What kind of heat source helps evaporation happen faster?
What is the sun?
Where do clouds form in the sky?
What is the atmosphere?
The type of precipitation that forms when rain falls through freezing air and turns into ice.
What is sleet?
A small, usually shallow body of freshwater surrounded by land.
What is a pond?
The planet in our solar system that is known as the "Blue Planet" because of its abundant water.
What is Earth?
Increases the rate of evaporation.
What is both wind and sunlight?
This happens to water vapor in the air as it cools down.
What is forming clouds?
The type of precipitation that falls in warm weather.
What is rain?
The name for a large flowing body of freshwater that typically empties into an ocean or lake.
What is a river?
The percentage of Earth's water that is found in oceans only.
What is 97%?
What do plants release into the air through evaporation?
What is water vapor?
The name of the clouds that form when water vapor condenses at higher altitudes.
What are cirrus clouds?
Small ice pellets during thunderstorms in cold weather.
What is hail?
A large, deep body of water that is completely surrounded by land, often with a large size.
What is a lake?
The name of the invisible gas that water vapor turns into as part of the water cycle.
What is water vapor?