Processes
What is evaporation?
Water changes from liquid to gas due to thermal energy.
What is condensation?
Water vapor in the air changes into liquid water.
What powers the Water Cycle?
The Sun
When clouds become to heavy, this happens.
Precipitation
What does the Sun do?
Powers the Water Cycle
What is sublimation?
A solid changes directly into gas, without first becoming a liquid.
What is runoff?
Precipitation that does not absorb into the soil or does not evaporate.
What does the water cycle show?
the movement of water
What is it called when water moves into the gorund?
Infiltration
list the process that is usually after evaporation
Condensation
What is inflitration?
water moving downward from Earth's surface into the soil
What is transpiration?
Water evaporates from plants.
What process is associated with clouds?
condensation
Water that is underground in the soil or aquifers.
Groundwater
What would usually follow the process of condensation?
precipitation
What is precipitation?
when water falls from clouds
What are the forms of precipitation?
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Hail
What happens when water vapor cools down?
It condenses into clouds
When plants release water vapor through their leaves.
Transpiration
How does evaporation happen?
The sun heats up water into water vapor
What is ground water?
Water under Earth's surface.
Which organism uses transpiration?
Plants
What happens to water when it is heated up by the sun?
turns into water vapor and evaporates
When excess waters moves over the surface into rivers, lakes or oceans.
Run-off
Does the water cycle have a begining or ending?
No