Evaporation
What makes water in a puddle disappear on a sunny day.
What is evaporation.
What forms when water vapor cools down and turns into water drops?
What is condensation?
What is it called when ice turns straight into gas?
What is sublimation?
This is the word for rain, snow, or hail falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
What is it called when plants "breathe out" water vapor?
What is transpiration?
Evaporation turns water into this invisible gas.
What is water vapor?
These fluffy white things in the sky are made from condensation.
What are clouds?
You can see sublimation when this icy stuff "smokes" in the air.
What is dry ice?
Precipitation happens when clouds get too full of what?
What is water (or water drops)?
Transpiration mostly happens through these green plant parts.
What are leaves?
This big object in the sky gives the heat needed for evaporation.
What is the Sun?
Condensation happens when warm air touches something this temperature.
What is cold?
Sublimation skips this middle step in the water cycle.
What is becoming liquid?
This cold kind of precipitation can hurt if it’s big!
What is hail?
Transpiration helps make this happen when plants and water work together.
What are clouds (or part of the water cycle)?
This happens to your wet hair when you're outside on a hot day.
What is it dries (evaporates)?
You see condensation on windows during this season.
What is winter (or cold weather)?
Sublimation happens more in this kind of place (very cold and dry).
What is Antarctica (or a polar place)?
Precipitation brings water back down to this part of Earth.
What is the ground (or land)?
Without transpiration, the air would have less of this.
What is water vapor (or moisture)?
Evaporation mostly happens from these large areas on Earth.
What are oceans or lakes?
Water collects on this part of a bathroom mirror after a hot shower.
What is the mirror?
Snow can sometimes disappear without melting because of this process.
What is sublimation?
This type of precipitation is frozen but falls like rain.
What is sleet?
This is the name for evaporation and transpiration working together.
What is evapotranspiration?