Water Cycle Vocab

The process in which water vapor changes to a liquid is called ________.

• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation
• crystallization

________ forms when water vapor changes from gas directly to ice crystals on a surface when the temperature at which condensing would take place is at the freezing point or below.

• Frost
• Sleet
• Hail
• Rain

Plants releasing water vapor is called ______.

• respiration
• transpiration
• photosynthesis
• evaporation

Rain, sleet, hail, and snow are all forms of what?

• evaporation
• surface- water flow
• condensation
• precipitation

The process by which liquid water on earth's surface changes to a gaseous state called water vapor is called _____.

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Transpiration

Temperature variations within clouds and/or within the region between the cloud and Earth allows for the various forms of ________. 

• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Groundwater flow

Water will sink into the ground when the surface is porous and there is lots of space in the soil to hold the water.  This water becomes a part of __________.

• surface-water flow
• evaporation
• groundwater flow
• precipitation

The series of natural process es by which water continually moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere is called the ______.

• crystallization
• precipitation
• water cycle
• surface-water flow

_____ are the tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapor condenses.

• Frost
• Dew
• Precipitation
• Hail

Water that falls to the surface of the earth becomes a part of what before it is evaporated ?

• Precipitation
• Transpiration
• Surface-water flow
• Groundwater flow