Powerful Vocabulary Lesson 19

What is the process called when water changes to a gas due to heat from the sun?

• Droplet

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

What is the size of a droplet most likely compared to?

• Small button

• CD

• Car

• Cell phone

Which of the following does not undergo evaporation?

• Milk

• Orange juice

• Fish

• Lake water

Why do farmers like precipitation?

• Horses need sunny days

• The clouds provide shade

• Their crops need rain

• It removes extra rain and moisture

How is water vapor best described?

• A small pond

• A gas

• A liquid

• Clouds

What is the process called when water vapor forms into a liquid in clouds?

• Evaporation

• Droplet

• Condensation

• Precipitation

In the water cycle, what falls back to earth as rain or snow?

• Droplet

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

Rain can fall lightly in small droplets or in a torrent like a waterfall. What is a droplet?

• Evaporation

• Droplet

• Condensation

• Water vapor

What forms into bigger and bigger clouds by condensing?

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Water vapor

What is the term for tiny drops of water on flowers in the early morning?

• Condensation

• Droplet

• Precipitation

• Evaporation