The Water Cycle
How nature constantly renews water
What is the water cycle?
A mixture of smoke and fog
What is smog?
Air pressing down on Earth
What is air pressure?
Water in the air or water in gas form
What is water vapor?
The layer of the atmosphere where clouds form
What is the troposphere?
Water being heated and changing to a gas
What is evaporation?
Precipitation containing acid
What is acid rain?
Where air pressure is greatest
What is sea level?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
Blanket like clouds also called fog at ground level
What is stratus clouds?
Water vapor cooling and changing to a liquid
What is condensation?
A resource that can be easily replaced
What is renewable resource?
What the troposphere is like at any given place and time
What is weather?
This causes water to rise
What is when it is heated or warmed?
Puffy clouds that signal fair weather
What is cumulus clouds?
Water from clouds falling to Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
Fuels formed from the decay of plants and animals
What is fossil fuels?
The layer of Earth where all weather happens and life exists
What is troposphere?
This happens when water rises
What is it is cooled and condenses?
Wispy clouds that form at very high altitudes made of ice crystals
What is cirrus clouds?
Water collecting on Earth
What is collection?
A layer of gas that screens out 95-99 percent of the Sun's UV rays
What is the ozone layer?
The angle at which sunlight strikes Earth's surface
What is insolation?
Condensed water droplets form these
What is clouds?
Clouds also known as thunderclouds that bring thunderstorms
What is cumulonimbus?