Vocabulary
The process where water vapor is released from the leaves of plants into the air.
What is transpiration?
Four forms of precipitation
What are rain, sleet, hail, and snow?
Gas that people need to live.
What is Oxygen?
Water moving continuously through the atmosphere, land, and oceans
What is Water Cycle?
Oceans contain this type of water.
What is saltwater?
After precipitation, some water runs over the surface of the earth into rivers and lakes; this flow is called this.
What is runoff?
The most common form of precipitation
What is rain?
The measurement of how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
This process forms clouds in the sky from water vapor cooling down.
What is condensation?
Water freezes in the clouds and falls as tiny white crystals
What is snow?
When water moves downward through soil and collects underground , this process is called this.
What is infiltration?
The instrument used to determine the amount of liquid precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
This term refers to the transformation of water directly from a solid form to a gas without becoming a liquid
What is sublimation?
Semi-frozen precipitation that forms on cold surfaces when rain or drizzle hits them and freezes.
What is freezing rain?
Underground layers of rock that store significant amounts of water
What is an aquifer?