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18 Cards in this Set
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What is the source of energy that drives the water cycle? |
the sun |
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What are the three processes that are involved in the water cycle? |
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation |
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Where can water be stored or accumulated? |
rivers, lakes, oceans, underground, ponds, and streams |
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Define the water cycle? |
the movement of water from the ground to the air and then back to the ground |
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What is evaporation? |
process in which liquid water is turned into water vapor |
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What is condensation? |
process in which water vapor is changed back into liquid water |
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What is accumulation? |
the collecting of water in streams, lakes, and oceans |
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What makes water evaporate? |
heat the temperature increase |
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What makes water vapor condense? |
when it is cooled the temperature decreases |
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What is precipitation? |
water that falls from the sky in its form of snow, rain, sleet, and hail |
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What are come types of precipitation? |
snow, rain, sleet, and hail |
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What forms can precipitation take? |
solid or liquid state |
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What types of clouds can be found in the sky? |
Stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus |
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Which type of cloud mean there is fair weather coming? |
cumulus clouds They are white with flat bottoms and fluffy on the tops |
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Which type of cloud means there is rainy weather coming? |
Stratus clouds These clouds form in layers and are dark and flat |
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Which type of cloud means there is/may be a thunderstorm coming? |
Cumulonimbus clouds These clouds are tall, dark clouds |
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Which type of cloud means there is/may be a change in weather / temperature coming? |
Cirrus clouds are wispy (like baby hair) made of ice crystals and are formed high in the sky. |
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where is most of our water on earth found? |
Oceans |
