Water Cycle 1
What drives the water cycle?
Sun
Water as a liquid changing into a gas.
evaporation
How are condensation and evaporation similar
they both caused by changes in heat energy
A cloud on the ground.
Fog
Stratus/ Good or Bad weather?
Bad
What is the running water that is in the dirt and rock layer under the Earth's Surface
groundwater
Water in a gas state that you can't see.
water vapor
Precipitation that soaks into the ground.
Puffy cotton ball clouds.
Cumulus
Cumulus/ - Good or Bad weather?
Good
What happens as raindrops collide with each other and get too heavy to stay in the cloud?
It precipitates
When water vapor changes back into a liquid.
condensation
When water evaporates, where does it go?
Into the atmosphere and eventually into the clouds
Feathery, thin, wispy clouds
Cirrus
Cirrus/ - Good or Bad weather?
Good, but a change will most likely occur in 24 hours
When water as a liquid turns into water vapor as it comes out of a plant
transpiration
Rain/snow/sleet/hail.
Precipitation
explain the process of evaporation
a liquid is heated up and turned into water vapor and rises in the atmosphere
Low, flat, gray clouds
stratus
Cumulonimbus/ - Good or Bad weather?
Bad weather
The Water Cycle only happens once. YES/NO
No
what is the term for the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere?
humidity
YES/NO - The Earth recycles the same amount of water over and over.
YES
Dark thunderstorm clouds.
Cumulonimbus
Which cloud has ice crystals?
Cirrus