Water Cycle
What is precipitation?
all the water on the planet including in the atmoshphere, underground, and bodies of water
What is the hydrosphere?
What is heat?
the molecules in this matter are lined up and crowded, but they vibrate
What is solid?
3% of the earth's water is this
What is fresh water?
water vapor that converts to liquid water drops
What is condensation?
the process of a liquid forming into a solid that has highly ordered atoms
What is crystallization?
the force needed to cause condensation to fall as precipitation
What is gravity?
The molecules in this matter are not tightly packed or lined up; they fill the space they are in.
What is liquid?
97% of the earth's water is this
What is salt water?
the process of turning a liquid into a gas
What is evaporation?
When there is more water than the land can absorb, the water flows to the lowest point.
What is runoff?
the common source of heat that causes water evaporation
What is the sun?
The molecules in this matter can drift far apart from one another in a random pattern.
What is a gas?
Most of the fresh water on earth is here.
What are glaciers?
the layer of gases surrounding the earth
What is the atmosphere?
a system that does not allow its components to escape
What is a closed system?
water under the earth's surface stored in underground layers
What is groundwater?
an ionized gas
What is plasma?
the part of the earth that includes snow, ice, glaciers, icebergs
What is the cryosphere?
the exhalation of water vapor from a plant
What is transpiration?
water from precipitation that permeates the soil
What is infiltration?
What is percolation?
plasma
What is the fourth state of matter?
the part of the earth that includes the core, mantle, crust, rocks, soil, and mountains
What is the geosphere?