Precipation
Condensation plus
Evaporation plus
Collection plus
Miscellaneous
100
Water that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
100
When water droplets come together up in the cooler sky and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
100
When the sun's heat causes water droplets to travel from Earth back up into the sky as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
wasting water or using too much is called
overconsumption
100
The amount of the Earth's surface that is covered by water.
What is 3/4?
200
When precipitation flows into rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is runoff?
200
Water in the form of gas.
What is water vapor?
200
The main heat source that causes evaporation to occur.
What is the sun?
200
water that is clean enough to drink
potable
200
All living things need this in order to stay alive and healthy
What is water?
300
When the precipitation seeps into the ground.
What is groundwater?
300
The layer of air that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
300
why do companies buy fresh drinking water sources
to sell bottled water and make money
300
The largest bodies of water that cover the Earth's surface.
What are oceans?
300
The constant movement of water from Earth to the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
400
Water that is taken up by the roots of a plant, and goes into the atmosphere through the leaves.
What is transpiration?
400
The most common form of water pollution from farmers
What is the use of fertilizers and pesticides?
400
what is desalinated water
ocean water that had the salt removed
400
when air pollution lowers the pH of rain water
acid rain
400
To take in or soak up water.
What is absorption?
500
What is happening in the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
500
A mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that form in the air.
What is a cloud?
500
what is an example of wasting water
varies
500
A floating chunk of ice that breaks off from a glacier or ice cap.
What is an iceberg?
500
A place where water is treated to make it safe to drink.
What is a water treatment plant?
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