Water Cycle (a)
Name five forms of precipitation.
What is rain, freezing rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud.
What is the process called when water is released by plants?
What is transpiration?
When water flows over the Earth's surface and gathers in lakes, oceans, and streams.
What is runoff
When gas changes to a liquid and happens when cool air rises?
What is condensation.
What are the two phases of the water cycle that involve a change in state of matter?
What are condensation and evaporation?
True/false: Water is lost in the water cycle into space.
What is false?
Water in the form of gas
What is water vapor
When liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation.
Where is most of Earth's water found?
What are oceans?
Who is responsible for respiration?
Who are animals and people?
A dew point above freezing causes? Below freezing?
What are droplets? What is frost?
Why does water fall down?
What is the force of gravity that pulls matter to Earth's surface.
Water vapor that is released when we breathe or exhale.
What is respiration?
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun
What is the amount of water vapor in a given volume of air?
What is humidity?