Water Cycle 1
Energy from the sun that heats up water on the Earth's surface.
Solar Radiation/Convection.
the cooling process by which a gas changes back into a liquid
condensation
This is is the process of water being collected on the ground
day to day changes in the atmosphere
Weather
What is the origin of energy that drives the water cycle
the sun
This is water that moves under the Earth's surface?
Ground water
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process?
transpiration
the gas form of water
Water Vapor
How or why does hail form?
When a thunderstorm's wind/updrafts carries water droplets high into the atmosphere, they freeze, then as these ice particles fall back down, they collide with more supercooled water droplets which freeze onto them, causing the pieces of ice/hail to grow larger until they are too heavy for the wind/updraft to support, and they fall to the ground.
True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from millions of years ago.
True
Weather patterns over a long period of time
Climate
Water in the form of gas
water vapor
Name two forms of precipitation.
rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
When water vapor turns into a liquid it forms...
a cloud.
any form of water that falls from the clouds
precipitation
True or False: the water cycle never stops
True
Long periods of no rainfall; shortage of water
Drought
What is it called when water moves from the atmosphere to the earth?
precipitation.
When water changes from a solid to a liquid.
melting.
Where is most of the water on Earth stored
Oceans
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
the Sun
the layers of air around the earth; held in place by gravity
Atmosphere
Thick / Heavy
Dense
The process of condensation is when a gas turns into a ...
Liquid
The cycle in which Earth's water moves through the environment
Water Cycle
the heating process by which a liquid changes into a gas
Evaporation
The water cycle moves ____________.
continuously or never stops; repeats.
What is the process of water being carried from one surface to another
Runoff
What is it called when water travels through oceans, the atmosphere and land over and over again.
the water cycle.
the stage of the water cycle where water is collected and stored
collection