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 Name the process in which liquid water
turns to a gas.
EVAPORATION
 Name the process in which a gas turns back
into a liquid.
CONDENSATION
 When water pools in large bodies, such as
lakes, rivers or oceans it is called…
ACCUMULATION
 Rain, snow, sleet and hail are a form of
what?
PRECIPITATION
 What type of cloud forms close to the
ground?
FOG
What type of precipitation is this?
HAIL
Which process is the arrow
pointing to?
Evaporation
Which process is the arrow
pointing to?
SURFACE RUNOFF
Which process occurs at the “X”
CONDENSATION
 What happens when the water droplets in a
cloud become too heavy for winds to keep
them in the air?
 They fall to the ground as PRECIPITATION.
 What are the three types of SOLID
precipitation?
 SNOW, SLEET, HAIL
 When raindrops fall through very cold air
near the ground, they freeze, changing into
tiny bits of …
SLEET
 This type of precipitation forms when the air
temperature is close to or below freezing
(32˚F). The water vapor turns directly into a
solid crystal.
SNOW
 What is the driving factor behind water
changing form one state to another?
TEMPERATURE
 What is the difference between groundwater
and surface runoff?
 GROUNDWATER- Water that seeps into the
ground (think about watering a flower).
Groundwater is stored in tiny holes, or
pores, in soil and rocks.
 SURFACE RUNOFF-Precipitation that flows
across the land’s surface and is not
absorbed will flow into rivers.
 How do clouds form?
 Clouds form when water vapor
EVAPORATES and then CONDENSES into
water droplets.
 How does snow from the top of a mountain
one day end up as a cloud?
 The sun’s energy will melt the snow and the
snow will runoff into the ocean and collect or
accumulate. The liquid water from the
ocean will evaporate and then condense
into a cloud.
 What is transpiration?
 TRANSPIRATION is the process in which
excess water evaporates out of the plants
leaves.
 Water droplets gather with these types of
particles to form clouds.
DUST PARTICLES
BONUS
 What happens to the molecules in a solid
when heat is added?
 The molecules gain energy and begin to
spread apart. The solid (ice cube) turns into
a liquid (water).
BONUS
 What happens to the molecules in a liquid
when heat is added?
The molecules gain even more energy and
turn into a gas-EVAPORATION
BONUS
 What happens to the molecules in a liquid
when heat is TAKEN AWAY?
 The molecules lose energy and turn into a
solid (liquid water turns into an ice cube).
BONUS QUESTION
 What happens to the molecules in gas when
heat is TAKEN AWAY?
 The molecules lose energy and come
together or condense.
BONUS
 What type of clouds are found at low altitude
and form a “blanket” over the sky?
 STRATUS
BONUS
 What type of cloud is “puffy” and found at
middle altitudes?
CUMULUS
BONUS
 What type of clouds form HIGH in the
atmosphere and are made of ice?
CIRRUS
Explain how hail forms based on
this picture.
 Hail forms in severe thunderstorm clouds
when raindrops in the clouds COLLIDE with
bits of ICE. The drops freeze, forming a
hailstone. Winds PUSH THE HAILSTONES
BACK UP into the cloud and the hailstones
grow larger.