Evaporation and Condensation
What makes the water molecules turn into gas molecules?
What is the sun.
How does it start to precipitate?
What is, clouds get too full of water vapor and it starts to precipitate.
How does water escape from leaves?
What is, the water turns into a gas and comes out through small holes in the leaves.
Water infiltrates _________ and ______.
What are sediments and cracks.
Is it possible for water from Boston to end up in Minnesota?
What is Yes
What are the 4 forms of precipitation?
What are rain, hail, snow, and sleet.
What are the pores in leaves called?
What are Stomatas.
What do you call water that has not been infiltrated?
What is Surface Water.
What would you call the gas form of water?
What is Water Vapor.
What is runoff?
What is, when water that has been recently precipitated, is gravitated toward bigger bodies of water.
What is Collection?
When water starts to collect in big piles to form bodies of water.
What is the purpose of absorption?
What is, to help nourish plants and their roots.
What does water vapor form?
What are Clouds.
How do precipitation and runoff relate to each other?
After it precipitates, the runoff starts to happen when the water on land joins bigger bodies of water.
What process of the water cycle is similar to transpiration?
What is Evaporation.
What is absorption?
What is, water being absorped by the ground and being taken up through plants roots.
What happens to gas in the atmosphere?
What is rising and cooling.
What is it called when ice collects in piles?
What is Ice Flow.
Why is transpiration important?
What is, plants need to release water so that they won't die and it is another chance to release evaporation.
What is infiltration?
What is, when water seeps into Earth's ground and fills sediments and cracks.