What Is the Water Cycle
What is water vapor?
An invisible gas
All the waters of the Earth make up the ____________
hydrosphere
_______________ is the state of the atmosphere.
Weather
__________ form when water vapor changes into tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
clouds
____________ describes the weather conditions over a long time.
climate
What is evaporation?
the changing of a liquid to a gas
A ________________ is a storage area, usually for water
reservoir
Scientists called _______________ study and predict the weather.
meteorologists
Frozen raindrops are called ________.
sleet
A measure of how far a place is from the equator is called _______________.
latitude
What is condensation?
when a gas turns into a liquid
The ocean is divided into how many oceans?
5
The pushing force of the atmosphere is called ___________ ____________.
barometric pressure
Frozen precipitation that forms in layers is called __________.
hail
The 3 climate zones are:
polar zone, tropical zone, and temperate zone
Give 1 example of precipitation.
rain, snow, sleet, or hail
The ocean covers about _____ of Earth's surface
3/4
____________ is the amount of water vapor in the air.
humidity
There are ___ common types of clouds.
5
We live in what type of climate zone?
temperate