Water Cycle
Vocabulary
Water Collection
Water Facts
Random Water
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The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
100
A long stretch of dry weather.
What is a drought?
100
This is built across a stream or river.
What is a dam?
100
78%
What is the percentage of water covering Earth?
100
The scientific notation for "water".
What is H2O?
200
The process in which gas changes to liquid.
What is condensation?
200
The act of recycling used water.
What is reclamation?
200
After precipitation, fresh water runs down mountains in this before adding to rivers.
What is a tributary?
200
1%
What is the percentage of fresh water in Earth's water supply?
200
This is the source for wells, where people lower pails to get their fresh water.
What is groundwater?
300
The process in which water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
The act of saving water.
What is conservation?
300
A dam is built to create a man made lake called this.
What is a reservoir?
300
3.5%
What is the concentration of salt in the oceans?
300
The form of matter that has its molecules closest together. For example, ice.
What is a solid?
400
The thing that forms when water vapor in the air changes into a liquid.
What is a cloud?
400
This word means to make water dirty or polluted.
What is contaminated?
400
This is built to transport water from high precipitation areas to low precipitation areas.
What is an aqueduct?
400
This room in a typical house uses the most water.
What is the bathroom?
400
This type of breeze occurs during the daytime because the land heats up quicker than water.
What is a sea breeze?
500
The three forms of frozen precipitation.
What are sleet, hail, and snow?
500
A sheet of ice that moves slowly over land.
What is an ice sheet?
500
This area of land drains into a specific river, ours is the Sacramento River.
What is a watershed?
500
This will be in short supply within the next ten years when our population grows, if we don't conserve it.
What is fresh water?
500
In a watershed, an area of land that drains into a major river, flooding occurs when there are less of these.
What are plants?
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