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Water Cycle #1
Water Cycle #2
Clouds #1
Clouds #2
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100
This drives the water cycle.
What is the sun?
100
This process is when clouds form.
What is condensation?
100
This cloud forms at or near the ground.
What is fog?
100
This cloud is puffy, lumpy, forms low to the ground and brings fair weather.
What is cumulus?
100
Put these materials in order from fastest to slowest in terms of heating and cooling: Land (soil), water or air?

air, soil. water

200
This is the gas form of water.
What is water vapor?
200
During this stage, water goes into the ground and is stored.
What is groundwater runoff/flow?
200
This cloud is wispy and forms at high altitudes.
What is cirrus cloud?
200
This clouds covers the sky, has a layered look and can bring precipitation.
What is stratus?
200

Why does water take longer to heat and cool than other materials?

Water reflects more of the heat energy and is also denser, so there are more molecules in the space that need to gain energy/loose energy

300
This process involves water flowing back to a lake, river, etc.
What is surface runoff/flow?
300
This process involves water droplets falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
300
This cloud forms at middle altitudes and has a puffy look.
What is altocumulus?
300
This clouds forms at middle altitudes and has a layered look.
What is altostratus?
300
With what we know about how materials heat, is the air on a sunny day near a large body of water likely to be warmer or cooler than the air not near a large body of water?

The air near a body of water will stay cooler because the water is cooler than the land.

400
This process involves water vapor turning back into water droplets.
What is condensation?
400
When a cloud is warm and the ground is war, this form of precipitation occurs.
What is rain?
400
This clouds forms at high altitudes and has a puffy look.
What is cirrocumulus?
400
This clouds forms is puffy and forms at high altitudes.
What is cirrocumulus?
400

Name the nine different steps involved in the water cycle during our simulation.

ground water, soil surface, lakes, rivers, oceans, glaciers, clouds, animals, plants

500
When a cloud is warm but the ground is cold, this form of precipitation occurs?
What is freezing rain/sleet?
500
When the cloud is cold and the ground is warm, this form of precipitation falls.
What is hail?
500
This clouds forms at low altitudes, brings precipitation, is featureless and covers the sky.
What is nimbostratus?
500
This clouds forms at high altitudes and covers the sky. It is thin and wispy.
What is cirrostratus?
500
These 3 clouds form at high altitudes.
What are cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus?