Water Cycle
Water in the form of gas.
What is water vapor?
When liquid changes slowly to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Name an example of evaporation that we can observe in our everyday lives.
*Worth 2 points.
Multiple answers are possible.
Clouds form when water vapor ________________.
What is condenses or cools?
Name an example of condensation that we can observe in our everyday lives.
*Worth 2 points.
Many answers are possible.
The processes that puts water into the air.
What is evaporation?
When gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
A process that changes rain into snow.
What is freezing or temperatures below 32 degrees?
Underground water supplies that some people rely on for water.
What are aquifers?
What is the main process by which water moves from the atmosphere to the land?
What is precipitation?
Name four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow?
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud?
State of matter when water is frozen.
What is a solid?
The reason that precipitation is made of freshwater, despite mainly coming from oceans.
What is because salt does not evaporate?
A property of water that is measured in parts per thousand.
What is salinity?
When water changes from a solid to a liquid.
What is melt?
Where is most of the water on Earth stored.
What are in the oceans?
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
Important ecosystems that help remove pollutants from water.
What are wetlands?
The cyclic movement of water between Earth's surface and the air.
What is the water cycle?
Water stored underground in soil and rocks.
What is groundwater?
The percentage of fresh water that is stored as ice.
What is 68.7%?
The percentage of water that covers Earth's surface.
What is around 75%?
Places to collect and store water that are made through human intervention or assistance.
What is a reservoir?
Where most of the fresh water on Earth is located.
What is in glaciers and polar ice caps?
What is at Earth's poles, Antarctica, and the Arctic?