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| the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid. |
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| rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground |
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| the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor |
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| water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface |
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| the process where plants absorb water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves. |
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| puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton. The base of each cloud is often flat and may be only 1000 meters (3300 feet) above the ground. The top of the cloud has rounded towers. |
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| means rain if it is warm and snow if it is cold. They look like a huge gray blanket that hangs low in the sky. Sometimes stratus clouds are on the ground or very near the ground, and then we call them fog. Usually stratus clouds and fog form when it has been cold out and then warmer, wet air blows in |
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| are thin and wispy. The most common form of high-level clouds are thin and often wispy cirrus clouds. Typically found at heights greater than 20,000 feet (6,000 meters), cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals that originate from the freezing of super cooled water droplets. |
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