Water Cycle Vocabulary

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Water Cycle Vocabulary
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Temperature The degree of hotness or coldness of
an objectSentence The temperature in California
was really hot.
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Cloud Water vapor that cools and becomes a
liquid, drops attach to dust particles and form
clouds.Sentence There are lots of clouds in the
sky today.
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Boiling point The point at which water boils
(100 degrees C or 212 degrees F)Sentence The
boiling point of water is 212 degrees
Fahrenheit.
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Precipitation Water that falls from clouds to
Earths surface.Sentence We are expecting a
large amount of precipitation today, so take your
umbrella!
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Evaporation the process by which a liquid
changes into a gas.Sentence The sun causes
evaporation from the ocean.
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Rain water that is condensed from the water
vapor in the atmosphere and falls to
earthSentence We got two inches of rain today!
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Solid having three dimensions (length, width,
and height), as a geometrical body or
figureSentence The solid ice cube in my drink
melted to a liquid.
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Water cycle The constant movement of water from
the surface of the Earth to the air and back
again.Sentence The water cycle is a process
that recycles water.
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Condensation The process by which a gas changes
into a liquid.Sentence The condensation from my
glass left a puddle on the table.
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Snow a precipitation in the form of ice crystal
formed directly from the freezing of the water
vapor in the air. Sentence Last winter we had
almost 12 inches of snow.
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Atmosphere the gaseous envelope surrounding the
earth the airSentence The airplane flew high
up in the atmosphere.
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Hail Precipitation in the form of pellets of ice
and hard snowSentence The hail from the storm
was the size of a baseball.
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Accumulation growth by continuous
additionsSentence The accumulation of snow
made it difficult to drive on the roads.
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Freezing Point The temperature water freezes (32
degrees Fahrenheit or 0 Celsius)Sentence When
the water in the ice trays reached the freezing
point, it became ice cubes.
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Sleet precipitation in the form of ice pellets
created by the freezing of rain as it
fallsSentence When it began to sleet, the roads
became slippery.
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Weather The condition of the atmosphere at a
certain place and time.Sentence The weather in
Georgia can change daily.
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Fog a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water
droplets or ice crystals near the surface of the
earth, reducing what you can see.Sentence When
I woke up there was so much fog, I could not see
my mailbox.
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Liquid molecules that move freely among
themselves but do not tend to separate like those
of gases neither a gas nor solidSentence The
liquid water I drank was really cold.
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Gas a substance that moves and expands, not a
solid or liquid.Sentence When I boiled the
water it became a gas.