The Water Cycle
When rain, snow, sleet, or hail falls from clouds it is called this.
What is precipitation?
This is the main force causing erosion.
What is the gravity.
This property of water allows a pin to float on the surface of water.
What is cohesion at the surface (surface tension)?
____ describes the weather conditions over a long time,
What is the Climate.
True/False
Clouds can hold less moisture at lower temperatures.
What is true?
This property of water demonstrates the attraction of one water molecule to another.
What is cohesion?
_________ is the height above sea level.
What is the elevation.
High altitude clouds that are often thin, wispy, and white.
What is cirrus?
Examples of where wind erosion and deposition take place.
What are sand dunes or fields.
This property of water allows water to "climb" up substances.
What is capillary action?
True or false?
Temperatures in temperate zones remain steady year around.
What is the false.
This forms when cool water vapor condenses into tiny droplets and forms a cloud near the ground.
What is a fog?
As water vapor rises into the atmosphere the temperature decreases. What effects does this have on the water vapor?
What is condensation?
Name the two main elements that cause erosion and deposition.
What are wind and water?
Water molecules tend to "stick" together because of positively and negatively charged "ends" of the molecule. So, we say it is what kind of molecule?
What is a polar molecule?
Measure of how far a place is from the equator.
What is the latitude.
If raindrops far for a long time through cold air, they freeze and fall to the ground as frozen drops called _____.
What is sleet?
Clouds and dew are formed as a result of which process in the water cycle?
What is condensation?
The process of laying down materials, such as rocks and soil.
What is erosion?
This property describes tightness across the surface of water, caused by the polar molecules pulling on one another.
What is surface tension?
Would Kansas be warmer or colder than Maryland and winter?
What is the colder.
When you remove gas molecules from inside a closed container the pressure outside...
Stays the same but the container will be crushed.
How much of Earth's surface is covered by water?
What is about 70%?
Glaciers are masses of ice that move slowly on land. Which of these features was most likely formed by a glacier?
What is a U-shaped or wide valley?
This property makes water valuable to industries and in your car's radiator as a coolant.
What is the high specific heat index.
Tropical, temperate, and polar describe climate zones due to _____.
What is the latitude.
A mid-level cloud between 2 km and 7 km above the ground.
What is altocumulus?