Question

1. practice fill in the process that causes each transition. your choices are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, melting, and freezing.

a. ocean → atmosphere

b. atmosphere → clouds

c. cloud → snow

d. glacier (river of ice) → river

e. cloud → soil

Explanation:

A. Ocean → Atmosphere

The transition from ocean to atmosphere involves liquid water in the ocean turning into water vapor (gas) in the atmosphere. This process is evaporation, where a liquid changes to a gas due to heat (usually from the sun).

In the atmosphere, water vapor (gas) cools and changes into liquid water droplets, which form clouds. This process of a gas changing to a liquid is condensation.

Clouds are made of water droplets. When these droplets freeze (change from liquid to solid) due to cold temperatures in the cloud, they form snowflakes. This process of a liquid turning to a solid is freezing (or deposition in some cases, but freezing of water droplets to form ice crystals for snow is common and fits the given choices).

Answer:

evaporation

B. Atmosphere → Clouds