Vocabulary
The atmosphere is...
What is the protective bubble in which we live?
Distance of the Troposphere from Earth is...
What is 6.2 miles (10 km or 33,000 ft)?
The water cycle has no _______ or ____________, it stays in a continuous loop.
What are beginning and ending?
1st layer
What is the Troposphere?
Ozone Layer
What is the layer that shields us, and other living things, from the Sun's harmful UV radiation?
Whispy clouds, that are typically associated with fair weather.
What is a cirrus cloud?
Before the step of evaporation, _________________ is what happens before.
What is accumulation OR transpiration?
2nd layer
What is the Stratosphere?
As we go higher in the atmosphere...
What is the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium?
Distance of the Mesosphere from Earth is...
What is 53 miles?
Transpiration is...
What is when the water on/in a plant is evaporated back into our atmosphere, and is used for our water cycle?
3rd layer
What is the Mesosphere?
The two factors that affect the water cycle are...
What are gravity and the sun?
Low-hanging clouds, that appear in rainy and thunderstorms weather.
What is stratus clouds?
The difference between transportation and transpiration are...
What is transformation is the process of water vapor stored in clouds transforming into precipitation, and transpiration is the process of water from on/in plants being evaporated back into the water cycle?
4th layer
What is the Thermosphere?
Name the two ways that those two factors affect the water cycle.
What are:
Gravity affects the water cycle by precipitation, infiltration, and run-off
AND
The Sun affects the water cycle by melting, evaporation, and transpiration?
Distance of the Exosphere from Earth is....
What is anywhere between 62,000-120,000 miles?
Steps to the water cycle is...
What are:
Precipitation
Run-off or Infiltration
Groundwater Flow or Accumulation
Evaporation or Transpiration
Condensation
Transportation?
5th layer
What is the Exosphere?