Water Cycle A
What is another name for the water cycle?
What is the Hydrologic Cycle
Super storage for the water cycle:
What is the ocean
Process by which liquid changes to a gas:
What is evaporation
Energy breaks bonds that hold water molecules together in this process:
What is evaporation
Where is the primary pathway into the water cycle?
What is the ocean
Water molecules move ____ at freezing point
What is slow
Dry ice is an example of ______
What is sublimation
What is the superhighway of the water cycle?
What is the atmosphere
_____ of energy allows water molecules to bond
what is loss
Water molecules move _______ at boiling point.
What is fast
Clouds are formed by ______
What is condensation
List 4 forms or precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail
Water locked up in its present state for a long period
What is water storage
Precipitation that doesn't get absorbed into soil or evaporate
What is runoff
Process of snow and ice changing into water vapor without melting first
What is sublimation
Another term for groundwater
What is aquifer
The downward process of water moving from the surface into the soil
What is infiltration
The area of land where all the water that falls in and drains off of goes into the same place
What is watershed
What is the "boss" of the water cycle?
What is the sun
What is the gas form of water called?
What is water vapor
Water lost to the atmosphere from the leaves of plants
What is transpiration
The delivery system if atmospheric water to Earth
What is precipitation
Ice caps and glaciers provide ______ from melting
What is runoff
Large amounts of water stored in the ground
What is groundwater
What process forms clouds?
What is condensation