Weather & Climate Vocabulary Quiz

The change of water from one state to another as it moves between Earth's surface to the atmosphere

• water cycle

• evaporation

• interact

general pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time (30 years or more/many decades)

• climate
• water cycle
• precipitation

Water that falls to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

• interact

• condensation

• precipitation

water vapor (gas) changing to a liquid by loss of heat (ex: water vapor forming clouds) G>L

• condensation
• evaporation
• water cycle

water that falls onto land and drains away into streams and rivers

• run off
• precipitation
• atmosphere

To act in such a way that has an effect on something else

• climate

• weather

• interact

day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere in an area (ex: weather can change from minute-to-minute, day-to-day, or week-to-week)

• weather
• climate
• water cycle

The process by which plants lose water out of their leaves

• transpiration

• condensation

• evaporation

liquid changing to a water vapor (gas) by adding heat (ex: water in oceans evaporating into the air ) L>G

• water cycle

• condensation

• runoff

The air that surrounds the Earth; it is made of a mixture of gases.

• evaporation

• atmosphere

• water cycle