cycle
What are the main parts of the water cycle?
evaporation condensation precipitation and run off
What are the jobs of precipitation?
Providing essential freshwater for ecosystem and humans, and cleaning the atmosphere by washing out pollutants.
What effect evaporation?
temperature, surface area, wind, and humidity.
What is responsible for condensation?
warm air collides with cold surface or when there's much humidity in your home
what is transpiration?
The process where plants release water vapor from leaves into the air.
Why is transpiration in the water cycle?
Contributing significantly to air moisture and influencing weather patterns
what causes precipitation to fall?
Cloud droplets or ice particles in cloud grow and combine to become so large that the updraft in the clouds can no longer support them and they fall to the ground.
What would happen if liquids never evaporates?
Create a world without rain, fresh wat the moderating effects of the water cycle.
What are 2 facts about condensation
[as a cold glass of water sits on a table, water vapor from the air condenses into water droplets.]
[Fog is formed by water vapor condenses a little above the ground.]
What are the 2 problems in transpiration?
[Minimizing cost of fuel]
[Finding safe place to park]
Why is the water cycle important?
Essential for sustaining life and regulating earth climate change.
What does 100% precipitation mean in weather?
You will receive precipitation a point that may last the whole time period or just an individual window of time
What brings the evaporation
The sun (soler energy).
Is condensation a sun or gravity?
Driven by gravity.
Do plants transpire night?
Yes
What powers the water cycle?
THE SUN
Does precipitation cause flooding?
Both extreme precipitation and total precipitation and contributed increase in severe flooding event in certain regions
How does the evaporation cause cooling?
Because the process requires energy to change a liquid to gas and that energy is drown from the liquid itself lowering its temperature.
how increase condensation?
Making water vaper colder.
What are 4 things that plants need to grow?
light, water, air, time
Is there a specific time of day that a thunderstorm is most likely to occur? What causes thunderstorm
Afternoon and early evening hours.
What do you call the sound of the rain?
pitter-pitter" "tapping drumming" "plinking, "or his mimic.
What causes most evaporation?
Higher temperature
What stops condensation?
taking quicker shower
covering the pans when you cook
always using an extractor fan when cooking
opening windows, in particular sides of the house.
How do plants breath?
though tiny pores on their leaves?