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Water Cycle 3B

The water cycle vocabulary

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Freshwater Water that does not have salt in it and which most animals and all humans need to drink to survive.
Most fresh water is frozen. True or False. True.
How much of the water on Earth is salt water? 97%
What is groundwater? An underground supply of water which has not soaked into the soil, but instead collects above solid rock.
Condensation Process that changes water vapor (gas) into liquid water. Clouds gather water vapor and release them as rain drops (liquid).
Evaporation Process that changes liquid water into water vapor. When you boil water, it changes from liquid to gas.
Precipitation Rain, snow and hail. When clouds get to heavy with liquid rain, they release it.
Water Cycle The journey that water takes from the clouds (liquid) to the rivers, lakes, and oceans, into the air (gas) and back to the clouds.
Atmosphere Air around the earth, including oxygen.
Cirrus Clouds Highest clouds in the sky and do not produce precipitation. Not puffy, very thin. No rain in these clouds reaches us.
Cumulus Clouds Puffy clouds and can produce rain/hail that can lead to strong storms.
Stratus Clouds Lowest clouds in the sky and looks like a sheet or layer of clouds. Produce rain and snow.
Weather What is happening in the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
Climate Average weather conditions over a long period of time.
How are weather and climate different? Climate is the weather in an area that happens for a season. Weather is what happens everyday, changing constantly.
Temperature Measure of how how hot or cold something is.
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