Water Cycle
The power source that makes the water cycle work
What is the sun?
The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is Weather?
This process occurs when a liquid changes state and becomes a solid
What is freezing?
The gaseous stage of water
What is steam? or What is water vapor?
Created when a horizontal column of air tilts vertically
What is a tornado?
The process by which liquid water changes to water vapor
What is Evaporation?
The process by which water vapor changes to liquid water, usually on a surface.
What is Condensation?
This process occurs when a solid becomes a liquid
What is Melting?
Happens to the temperature of a gas when squeezed into a smaller volume
What is increase in temperature?
Created when water droplets get caught in updrafts and are carried above the freezing level
What is Hail?
A place where fluid liquids collect in the water cycle.
What is a Reservoir?
Most of this is found in ice caps and glaciers
Where is Earth's Fresh Water?
An energy transfer in which energy is taken away
What is Condensing? or What is Freezing?
Gravity effects this part of the water cycle.
What is precipitation? or What is Runoff? or What is infiltration?
Type of storm characterized by lightning and a rolling rumble
What is a Thunderstorm?
Water which travels through plants and is released as water vapor
What is Transpiration?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is Humidity?
An energy transfer in which energy is added
What is Evaporation? or What is Melting?
Why does a balloon deflate when taken outside in the winter?
Cooler Temperatures=Greater Air Pressure
Air pressure is greater on the outside of the balloon than on the inside.
Rotating low pressure system that forms over ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
The temperature at which water vapor condenses into liquid water
What is the Dew Point?
The downward movement of water from the soil surface
What is Infiltration?
An energy transfer during which the molecules decrease in speed
What is Condensation? or What is Freezing?
The atmospheric layer where weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
The process of going directly from a solid to a gas without passing through a liquid phase
What is Sublimation?