Water Cycle
Properties of Water
100

What process causes water vapor to cool and change into liquid droplets?

What is condensation?

100

Water is made of two elements: hydrogen and what?

What is oxygen?

200

What is the name of the process where water from plants is released into the atmosphere?

What is transpiration?

200

What is the term for water's ability to stick to other surfaces?

What is adhesion?

300

What part of the water cycle involves water soaking into the ground?

What is infiltration?

300

What property of water allows it to absorb a lot of heat before its temperature rises?

What is high specific heat?

400

What is the term for water flowing over the surface of the land into bodies of water?

What is runoff?

400

What is the name of the force that holds water molecules together?

What is cohesion?

500

During which process in the water cycle does water change from a liquid to a gas?

What is evaporation?

500

What unique property causes ice to float on liquid water?

What is that ice is less dense than liquid water?

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