Processes
Reservoirs
Human Impacts
Processes (Images)
Bonus
100
The process where liquid water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
This reservoir contains water vapor and water droplets in clouds.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Removing large numbers of trees decreases transpiration and can increase surface runoff.
What is Deforestation?
100
What water-cycle process is shown? (Rainwater flowing into river)
What is surface runoff?
100
The main source of energy that drives evaporation and the water cycle.
What is the sun/solar energy?
200
When water falls from clouds to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
The largest water reservoirs on Earth, containing most of Earth's water.
What are oceans?
200
The pumping of groundwater faster than it can be naturally replaced, lowering the water table.
What is groundwater overuse/groundwater depletion?
200
What process is shown by the downward movement of water into the ground?
What is infiltration?
200
Fertilizers, sewage, chemicals, and other contaminants entering rivers, lakes, or groundwater are an example of this human impact.
What is water pollution?
300
The process where water vapor cools and changes into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
300
An underground layer of permeable rock, sand, or gravel that stores groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
300
Roads, parking lots, and buildings create impermeable surfaces that decrease infiltration and increase runoff.
What is urbanization?
300
What process is represented by the movement of water underground?
What is groundwater flow?
300
The process of adding water back into an aquifer.
What is groundwater recharge?
400
The process where plants release water vapor through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
400
hese reservoirs contain most of Earth's freshwater.
What is are Glaciers/Ice caps?
400
These human structures can store water and change the natural timing and direction of river flow.
What are dams and water diversions?
400
What process is shown where ice turns directly into vapor?
What is sublimation?
400
An area of land where all precipitation drains toward the same river, lake, or other body of water.
What is watershed?
500
These two processes occur when water enters the soil and then moves deeper through soil and rock.
What are Infiltration and percolation?
500
Name three smaller reservoirs where water can be stored besides oceans, glaciers, groundwater, and the atmosphere.
What are Lakes/rivers, soil moisture, and living organisms?
Wetlands also acceptable
500
This human-caused change can increase evaporation, alter precipitation patterns, melt glaciers, and increase extreme droughts and floods.
What is climate change?
500
Identify the water-cycle processes labeled 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
2. Condensation
3. Precipitation
5. Surface runoff
6. Infiltration / percolation
7. Evaporation
8. Groundwater flow
500
The upper surface of the saturated groundwater zone.
What is a water table?