Show:
Precipitation
Water Cycle
Clouds
Misc.
More Misc.
100
This kind of precipitation turns into a liquid after leaving the clouds and remains a liquid after falling to the earth.
What is rain?
100
During which part of the water cycle does dew form?
What is condensation?
100
True or false: Many clouds are made of ice crystals in the summer sky? NO STEAL
What is true?
100
What are frozen raindrops that fall from the clouds called?
What is sleet?
100
What percent of the earth is covered in water?
What is 75%?
200
This kind of precipitation remains an ice crystal the entire way to the earth.
What is snow?
200
What is sublimation?
What is solid ice turning to water vapor?
200
These types of clouds form at a low altitude and are flat like a blanket.
What are stratus clouds?
200
What do you call water vapor that freezes on a surface?
What is frost?
200
What carries water toward the poles?
What are currents?
300
This kind of precipitation is liquid on its way to the earth but freezes after reaching the earths surface.
What is freezing rain?
300
This part of the water cycle occurs after evaporation and is when the water vapor becomes clouds.
What is condensation?
300
This kind of cloud is fluffy, has a flat bottom, and is found at mid-altitude.
What is the cumulus cloud?
300
When air moves upward to areas of less air pressure, what often happens?
What is clouds form?
300
What is heavier, water with high salinity or water with low salinity? NO STEAL
What is water with high salinity?
400
This kind of precipitation is created by winds inside a cloud and falls when it becomes too heavy usually during a thunderstorm.
What is hail?
400
This phase of the water cycle is when the water moves from the clouds back to the earth.
What is precipitation?
400
This type of cloud is made of ice, is wispy, thin and is found at a high altitude.
What is the cirrus cloud?
400
What do you call invisible water molecules in the air or water in the form of the gas?
What is water vapor?
400
What is formed when a large piece of ice breaks off a glacier or ice sheet?
What is an iceberg?
500
True or false: all precipitation begins as an ice crystal in the clouds. NO STEAL
What is true?
500
This phase of the water cycle occurs when water turns into vapor.
What is evaporation?
500
What are the three kinds of clouds?
What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus?
500
Water that fills the spaces between particles of rock and soil is called
What is groundwater?
500
What is the top level of groundwater in an aquifer called?
What is the water table?