Basic words
What is water vapor?
What is gas in the air that changes into tiny water droplets to make clouds?
What process results in rain, snow, sleet, or hail in the water cycle
precipitation
What is evaporation
What is the process of turning from liquid into vapor?
What is precipitation
What is any form of water—liquid or solid—that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the Earth's surface
What would happen to the oceans if the sun did not heat them?
The oceans would freeze, and the water would not circulate.
List the processes that occur in the water cycle.
evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff, collection, and percolation
How does deforestation impact the water cycle, and what are the potential ecological consequences of these impacts?
Deforestation impacts the water cycle by decreasing evapotranspiration, which reduces atmospheric moisture and rainfall, and increasing surface runoff, leading to erosion and floods?