Earth Science Regents Water Cycle

What is climate

• long term weather conditions
• short term weather conditions
• the forces which create wind
• atmospheric conditions over a short term conditions over local

Why wind belt has the greatest affect on the summer climate of New York State?

• prevailing northwesterlies 
• prevailing northeasterlies
• prevailing southwesterlies
• prevailing southeasterlies

The changes to water when it evaporates into the air, condenses into clouds, and then precipitates back down to Earth's surface

• water cycle
• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation

Which best defines evaporation?

• Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid.
• When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink.
• When the water keeps going around, around and around.
• When the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam.

When warm vapor rises, gets cold and gathers in the clouds is what part of the water cycle?

• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Conservation

What is condensation?

• The part of the water cycle when the sun heats up water, turning it from a liquid into water vapor or steam. It rises from the ground into the air.
• The part of the water cycle when the water vapor in the air gets cold. The water turns back into a liquid and forms clouds.
• The part of the water cycle when clouds get heavy and can no longer hold the liquid water. This causes the water to fall from the sky to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

When rain drops fall to earth.

• Transpiration
• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation

Process of evaporation through plant leaves.

• Transpiration
• Condensation
• Runnoff
• Evaporation

Water that runs off the surface of the land, and flows downhill into streams, rivers, ponds and lakes

• Condensation
• Runoff
• Transpiration
• Evaporation

This forms when water vapor changes from gas directly to ice crystals on a surface when the temperature at which condensing would take place are at the freezing point or below.

• dew
• rain
• snow
• frost