Water in the Environment
Precipitation
Ocean Effects
The Water Cycle
Vocabulary
100
This is water in the form of a gas.
What is water vapor?
100
These are the 4 forms of precipitation.
What are rain, sleet, hail, and snow?
100
These two things are affected greatly by the ocean.
What are weather and climate?
100
Heat from the sun causes this step of the water cycle where water vapor rises up in the air.
What is evaporation?
100
This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Water exists on Earth in these 3 states.
What is liquid, gas, and solid?
200
This is a continuously moving loop of air or liquid that transfers energy.
What is a convection current?
200
In a deep ocean current warm water rises and cold water does this.
What is sink?
200
In this step of the water cycle water droplets have become too heavy. Gravity takes over and the droplets fall to Earth.
What is precipitation?
200
This is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of material by 1 degree celsius.
What is specific heat capacity?
300
Most of Earth's water is undrinkable because it contains this.
What is salt?
300
This is a cloud that forms near the ground.
What is fog?
300
Oceans do this more slowly than land.
What is warm and cool?
300
In this stage of the water cycle clouds are formed.
What is condensation?
300
This is the temperature at which the air is saturated.
What is dew point?
400
Heavy water runoff can transport soil or rock, also known as this.
What is erosion?
400
This most common form of precipitation may start falling to Earth as ice crystals.
What is rain?
400
Ocean waters near this are generally warmer than in other places.
What is the equator?
400
Water vapor is released from plant leaves in this step of the water cycle.
What is transpiration?
400
This the full rotation of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
500
The name for trenches caused by erosion.
What are gullies?
500
This cloud idiom describes being in a great mood.
What is "on cloud 9"?
500
This United States coast has warmer ocean temperatures due to the warm currents moving north along it.
What is the East Coast?
500
This returns water to large bodies of water so that the water cycle may begin again.
What is runoff?
500
This is the average pattern of weather in a region over a period of time.
What is climate?
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