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Rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is types of precipitation?
When water vapor gas begins to change back into a liquid.
What is condensation?
Explain how and why precipitation happens.
What is water condenses and forms a cloud. When enough water droplets form in the cloud, they get too heavy for the cloud to hold. When this happens, it then will precipitate.
Name the two spheres: The remains of dead plants and animals can get buried under soil to form coal and oil over long periods of time.
What are the biosphere and geosphere?
Includes all living plants and animals.
What is the biosphere?
The movement of water into the air as a gas and back to the Earth in the form of precipitation.
List the four main types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
This is what moves from the surface into the air and back again to Earth's surface during the water cycle.
What is water?
Name the two spheres: A volcano erupts adding carbon dioxide to the air.
What is the geosphere and atmosphere?
Includes only non-living soil, rocks and minerals.
What is the geosphere?
Water in the form of a gas.
What is water vapor?
This is the beginning source of energy that evaporates the most water from Earth's surface.
What is the sun?
This is when liquid water changes into a gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Name the two spheres: Water availability impacts plant growth and animals who depend on plants for food.
What are the hydrosphere and biosphere?
Includes rivers, lakes, oceans, and glaciers.
What is the hydrosphere?
When precipitation soaks in the ground through the soil.
What is infiltration?
This is where we see condensation happening in the water cycle.
What is clouds forming?
Water begins to evaporate when you add this to it.
What is heat?
Name the two spheres: Wind can carry seeds to new places, so more plants can grow.
What are the biosphere and atmosphere?
Includes all the gases on Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Precipitation that flows downhill on Earth's surface toward streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is runoff?
This happens to water after it falls from clouds as rain.
What is it will flow down mountains and hills and collect into a lake, river, or ocean?
This is the kind of weather you would expect the most evaporation from on the surface of a pond.
What is warm and sunny?
Name the two spheres: Air temperature impacts the evaporation of lakes and streams.
What are the hydrosphere and atmosphere?
Name the two spheres: Chemicals in the air impact the weathering of rocks.
What are the atmosphere and geosphere?