This is a word for when the cloud gets heavy and full of water particles that it starts to pour.
What is PRECIPITATION?
Water particles gathering and floating in the air.
What is a cloud?
This gas is the air we need to breathe to live.
What is oxygen?
This term is a very small quantity or piece.
What are PARTICLES?
This is when water is at room-temperature, neither scorching hot or freezing cold.
What is liquid water?
This is the process of water heating and rising in the air; it happens after accumulation.
What is EVAPORATION?
This type of cloud is fluffy tall, and does NOT create a storm.
What is a CUMULUS CLOUD?
This is the hottest region on Earth that receives the most direct sunlight.
What is the EQUATOR?
This term is the average weather in a place over a long time.
What is CLIMATE?
What is [solid] ice?
This star is the energy source needed for the water cycle to happen.
What is the SUN?
This type of cloud is low, flat, and widespread, and does NOT create a storm.
What is a STRATUS CLOUD?
These places are where water vapor in the atmosphere comes from.
What are oceans, lakes, and rivers (or bodies of water)?
This term is for "a mixture of gases that surround a planet."
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
This is the state of water when it is heated and rises up in the air.
What is water vapor (water as a gas)?
This is the term for when water evaporates from plants and trees.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
This type of cloud is tall, fluffy, and is likely to create a storm.
What is a CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD?
These two places receive little sunlight and heat, and have a cold climate all year long.
What are the North Pole and South Pole?
This is fine particles of water floating in the air as gas.
What is WATER VAPOR?
These are pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds; could be the size of golf balls.
What is HAIL?
This is when water vapor cools to become liquid water.
What is CONDENSATION?
This type of cloud is low, dark, flat, and widespread, and will likely cause rain most of the day.
What is a stratonimbus (or nimbostratus) cloud?
This is what happens when too much carbon dioxide is in our atmosphere.
What is global warming (or ice caps melting)?
This the process when water has been collected during the water cycle after precipitation (rain).
What is ACCUMULATION?
These two gases are what make up water.
What is 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen (H2O)?