Water Cycle (a)
Name four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud
When water is in a gas state.
What is water vapor.
What is the process called when water is released by plants?
What is transpiration?
A group of water droplets in the atmosphere. The droplets are pure water in liquid form.
What is a cloud.
When water flows over the Earth's surface and gathers in lakes, oceans, and streams.
What is runoff
When gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation.
What are the two phases of the water cycle that involve a change in state of matter?
What are condensation and evaporation?
T/F: Water is lost in the water cycle into space.
What is false?
Rain that falls from the clouds but freezes along the way.
What is sleet.
Water in the form of gas
What is water vapor
When liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation.
Where is most of Earth's water found?
What are oceans?
Clouds form when water vapor________.
What is condenses?
What is it called when water seeps into the ground?
What is infiltration?
When water changes from a liquid to a solid.
What is freeze
During the water cycle, water moves between:_____and the ___.
What is the Earth and the air.
When water vapor changes to a liquid
What is condensation.
It is made up of ice chunks which are much larger than sleet. They form inside thunderstorm clouds.
What is hail.
When water changes from a solid to liquid
What is melt.
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun.
The movement of water between Earth's surface and the air.
What is the water cycle.