Water Cycle: Weather Vocab #4

The sun caused the water to go through a physical change. It turned from a liquid to a gas and that is...

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Radiation

• Precipitation

In the winter we often see frozen vapor that falls in flakes, or...

• Rain

• Sleet

• Snow

• Hail

Streams, branches, creeks, rivers,

lakes, reservoirs, oceans, and other places water collects is known as...

• Run-Off

• Collection

• Reduction

• Condensation

Rain, Sleet, Snow, and Hail are examples of forms of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and

reaches the ground, that we call...

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Radiation

• Precipitation

On the way into the school Matthew noticed a puddle of water, later it was gone. It had gone through the process of changing from liquid into a gas or...

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Adaptation

• Radiation

When it's sunny and hot out plants "sweat", lose water through their leaves, which we know is...

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Much of the precipitation that falls as rain, sleet, snow or hail, seeps into the ground and is stored in tiny

holes, or pores, in soil and rocks and we call this...

• Groundwater

• Run-Off

• Evaporation

• Cloud Formation

Sometimes it does not snow in winter, we see partly thawed and re-frozen snow flakes, and this is...

• Rain

• Sleet

• Snow

• Hail

After water evaporates it rises into the atmosphere and changes state from gas to liquid, and this is...

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Radiation

Cumulonimbus clouds sometimes have frozen water falling in pellets and it can damage homes, cars, and pools. (These are rare softball size) This is...

• Rain

• Sleet

• Snow

• Hail