The Water Cycle
What is the process where water turns into a gas?
Evaporation.
What level of the atmosphere we living in right now?
The troposphere.
What are white puffy clouds called?
Cumulus clouds.
What are all clouds made of?
Water.
What is an air parcel?
An amount of air that acts as a unit.
What is the process where a gas turns into a liquid?
Condensation.
What is the second level of the atmosphere closest to us?
The stratosphere.
What are detached, white clouds?
Cirrus clouds.
The higher you go up in the atmosphere, will it get cooler or warmer?
It will get colder.
What is water vapor?
Water as a gas.
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all example of?
Precipitation.
What is the last level of the atmosphere, farthest from where we live right now?
The exosphere.
What are tall, big, tower clouds called?
Cumulonimbus clouds.
How do clouds form?
When water vapor condenses into liquid water droplets and gathers in a group.
What is energy?
The ability to make things move or change.
Where does the energy that drives the water cycle come from?
The Sun.
In which level of the atmosphere does all weather happen?
The troposphere.
What are clouds that are low-level and horizontal?
Stratus clouds.
Clouds rise until they have a colder temperature, warmer temperature, or equal temperature than the surrounding air?
Equal temperature(equilibrium).
What is temperature?
How hot or cold something is.
What is the water cycle?
The water cycle is the continuous movement of water within the Earth and its atmosphere.
Which layer of the atmosphere blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation?
The thermosphere.
What is the name of a cloud forming a layer of rounded masses with a leveled base, occurring at a medium altitude?
Altocumulus clouds.
Higher clouds have more or less energy than lower clouds?
They have a lower energy because they are colder.
What is a cloud?
Tiny liquid water droplets suspended in the air.