The Water Cycle
Ground Water
Water Distribution
Freshwater Availability
Surface Water
100
This process occurs when water molecules gain enough energy from solar radiation to break away from a body of water and move up into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
100
This describes water that is located underground.
What is ground water?
100
This percent of Earth's surface is covered in water.
What is 70%?
100
What percent of available fresh water to humans use?
What is 30%?
100
This describes water located on the surface of a planet.
What is surface water?
200
This process causes clouds to form in the atmosphere and water droplets to form on the side of a cold glass.
What is condensation?
200
This erupts boiling hot water and steam into the air.
What is a geyser?
200
This is the percentage of Earth's water that is fresh.
What is 3%?
200
These are microscopic organisms transmitted through freshwater.
What are waterborne pathogens?
200
These are smaller streams & rivers that flow into the body of a main river.
What are tributaries?
300
This is how Earth receives freshwater naturally.
What is precipitation?
300
This type of soil material does not allow water to pass easily through it.
What is impermeable soil?
300
Most freshwater is located here.
?What are glaciers and ground water?
300
This occurs from fertilizer run-off in rivers.
What are algae blooms?
300
This is the name of a land area that supplies a river system with water.
What is a watershed?
400
This is the process by which plants lose water through their leaves.
What is evapotranspiration or transpiration?
400
This is the name for a body of water that has collected underground in a rock layer.
What is an aquifer?
400
More water is located underground than in any of these places combined.
What is rivers, streams & lakes?
400
These are two ways that freshwater amounts have been reduced due to urbanization.
What is pollution and contamination?
400
These are formed when water begins collecting in low-lying land.
What are ponds and lakes?
500
This is the scientific name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
500
This term describes water being pushed back out of the ground.
What is groundwater discharge?
500
This is the percent of Earth's water that is salty.
What is 97%?
500
This is the main demand for freshwater today.
What is irrigation?
500
These are examples of surface waters. (must have at least 4 listed)
What are rivers, streams, lakes, oceans, wetlands.
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