The Water Cycle

Vocabulary

100

The process in which water moves from the surface of the Earth to the air and then back again.

What is the water cycle?

200

A storm that develops over water with wind speeds of 74 miles an hour or more.

What is a hurricane?

300

The process by which a liquid changes into a gas.

What is evaporation?

400

Water Covers _________ of Eaths surface. 

What is 3/4th 

500

This is frozen rain.

What is sleet?

Vocabulary

100

This is when water falls back to the earth in the form or either rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

What is precipitation?

200

Process by which a gas changes into a liquid.

What is condensation?

300

Water in the atmosphere affects what? 

What is Weather

400

When water evaporates it changes form a liquid to a?

What is a gas. 

500

Water always _____ of clouds eventually. 

What is Falls outs. 

The Water Cycle

100

This is what happens when liquid is warmed.

What is evaporation?

200

This is the thing that powers the water cycle.

What is the sun?

300

This is water beneath the earth's surface.

What is groundwater?

400

This is excess water that is not soaked into the ground and flows into larger bodies of water.

What is runoff?

500

what are the 3 main processes that move water through the air? 

What is Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation 

Weather & The Water Cycle

100

Liquid Water leaving the clouds is called? 

What is precitation. 

200

Water never stops? 

Moving 

300

A reservior is where water is_________? 

what is Collected 

400

Water runs downhill and flows into the ___ spot?

what is Lowest 

500

When water is warmed by the sun it? 

What is Evaporates?