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The process in which the surface of the water slowly changes into a gas or vapor.
What is evaporation?
The vapor gathers and turns into clouds; the change of state from gas to liquid.
What is condensation?
Any form of water that falls from clouds to Earth’s surface.
What is is precipitation?
The precipitation is absorbed by the ground or bodies of water.
What is storage?
When water on the Earth’s surface is ready to evaporate into the air and begin the cycle again
What is accumulation?
Water boils at ______ degrees Celsius.
What is 100?
Water freezes at ______ degree Celsius.
What is zero "0"?
Water boils at ______degrees Fahrenheit.
What is 212?
Water freezes at _______degree Fahrenheit.
What is 32?
The gas formed when water evaporates.
What is water vapor?
Water that cannot be absorbed into the ground.
When water changes liquid from solid.
What is freezing?
The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.
What is the water cycle?
A period of no or little rain leading to dry conditions.
What is a drought?
List three forms of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, snow, or hail?
Water forming outside a cold glass of water.
A puddle drying in the sun.
What is evaporation?
The three states of matter that water can exist in.
What is solid, liquid, gas?
Morning dew on the grass.
What is condensation?
A form of matter that does not keep its shape and does not always take up the same amount of space.
What is a gas?
A form of matter that does not keep its shape but always takes up the same amount of space.
What is a liquid?
The amount of the Earth's surface that is covered by water.
What is 3/4?
What is 75/5
To take in or soak up water.
What is absorption?
The layer of air that surrounds Earth.
What is atmosphere?
This determines the type of precipitation that falls.
What is the type of air that it falls through?