The Water Cycle Definitions Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• convectional rainfall : when the land warms up, it heats the air above it. this causes the air to expand and rise, air rises and it cools and condenses
• advection : the horizontal movement of water vapour in the air
• transpiration= : when moisture is carried through plants and roots to small pores on the under side of the leaves, where it changes to vapour and is released to the atmosphere
• precipitation : the water released from clouds in the form of rain
• sublimation : the transition of a substance directly from a solid to the gas phase without passing the through the intermediate liquid phase
• condensation : the conversion of vapour or gas liquid
• percolation : the movement of water down through the rock
• evaporation : the process of a substance in a liquid state changing to a gaseous stat due to an increase in temperature
• atmosphere : the envelope of gases surrounding the earth and other planets