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16 Cards in this Set
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Precipitation |
Rain, Snow, sleet, or hail |
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Atmosphere |
The air around Earth. |
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Groundwater |
Earth's underground supply of water. |
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Condensation |
Change of gas into a liquid. |
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Fresh Water |
Water that has very little salt in it. |
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water cycle |
movement of water from Earth's land and water into the air and back again. |
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Evaporation |
The change of liquid into a gas. |
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Glacier |
A huge sheet of ice. |
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An Example of Evaporation |
Water boils when Cheryl's mom is getting ready to cook pasta, |
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Example of weather |
The announcer tells you its a sunny day, and the temperature will be 70 degrees. |
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Trevor sees white, wispy, clouds high in the sky. |
Cirrus Clouds |
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Ground water is important because.... |
People use it for drinking and bathing. |
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Luis is observing ice cubes as they change. The picture shows |
Melting |
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Water moves fromthe air to the land, through rivers, to the ocean, and back to the air. How does water move from the air to the land? |
It falls as precipitation. |
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This process forms clouds |
When water vapor rises and condenses. |
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An anemometer measures |
wind speed |
