Water Cycle
Matter
Asteroids and Comets
Matter (B)
Oceans
100
Water vapor comes back to Earth's surface by this.
What is precipitation?
100
This phase of matter does NOT have a definite shape or a definite volume.
What is gas?
100
This is formed when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
100
The particles of this state of matter vibrate
What is solid?
100
This is the process to make ocean water drinkable
What is desalinization or desalination?
200
This is water that flows off the land into streams, rivers or oceans.
What is runoff?
200
When bubbles of gas form under the surface of a liquid, the temperature at which this occurs is called this.
What is the boiling point?
200
When Earth passes though the orbit of a comet, this happens.
What is a meteor shower?
200
Evaporation is when a _______________ changes into a _______________
What is liquid; gas
200
This is the average temperature of the ocean at the equator.
What is 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit)
300
The energy of this causes most evaporation, sublimation and melting.
What is the Sun?
300
This state of matter is like a gas because it has no definite volume and like a metal because it conducts electricity.
What is plasma?
300
The gravitational force of this planet keeps many asteroids from hitting Earth.
What is Jupiter?
300
This state of matter has a definite volume but NOT a definite shape
What is liquid?
300
These are TWO of the resources you can get from water.
What are salt, magnesium, drinking water and food?
400
The water cycle can be affected by these 4 things.
What are temperature, pressure, wind and land elevation?
400
This has to happen for the molecules of water vapor to come together and condense.
What is the temperature needs to decrease?
400
A shooting star is really one of these?
What is a meteor?
400
Condensation is when a _______________ changes into a _______________
What is gas; liquid
400
Warm areas in the ocean have high salinity because of this?
What is warm water evaporates and leaves behind the salt?
500
This is ice changing into water vapor WITHOUT melting first.
What is sublimation?
500
These are the two names for the temperature at which a material changes between liquid and solid states.
What are melting point and freezing point?
500
It usually takes an asteroid this long to make one revolution.
What is 3 to 6 years?
500
The melting point of lead is this temperature
What is 327 degrees Celsius?
500
This current takes warn water from the Caribbean and moves it to the North Atlantic.
What is the Gulf Stream?
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