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A mid-altitude cloud
What is cumulus or alto cumulus?
100
Carries warm water toward the poles.
What is currents?
100
When air moves upward to areas of less air pressure this often happens.
What is clouds form?
100
This best describes rivers, streams, and lakes.
What is surface fresh water?
100
When liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A cloud that is made of ice crystals.
What is cirrus?
200
This is the percent of the Earth that oceans cover.
What is 75%?
200
Happens after evaporation when water vapor turns into clouds.
What is condensation?
200
Water that fills spaces between particles of sand and soil.
What is groundwater?
200
When water runs off surface in streams or rivers.
What is run-off?
300
A low altitude cloud that looks like a gray blanket.
What is stratus?
300
This is formed when a large piece of ice breaks off a glacier.
What is an iceberg?
300
Snow turning into water vapor is an example of this.
What is sublimation?
300
Top level of groundwater in an aquifer.
What is the water table?
300
When water in some form falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
400
Clouds are often made of this even in the summer.
What is ice crystals?
400
A liter of cold water with high salinity is _________ than a liter of warm water with low salinity.
What is heavier?
400
Dew forms during this part of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
400
Communities put water through these to clean out dirt and other particles.
What is filters?
400
Frozen raindrops falling from the clouds.
What is sleet?
500
A tall vertical cloud that brings thunderstorms.
What is cumulo nimbus?
500
An iceberg is made of what kind of water? (fresh or salt)
What is fresh water?
500
When water vapor freezes on a surface.
What is frost?
500
Communities add chemicals to water to do this.
What is kill germs?
500
These two processes both involve water turning into water vapor, but one is liquid and the other is solid.
What are sublimation and evaporation?