The Water Cycle
In this process, water travels in a sequence from the air to the earth, and then returns to the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
This river serves as the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
Water does this at 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is freeze?
This underground formation holds water in spaces between sand, gravel and rock.
What is an aquifer?
What is washing with a full load?
The source of energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
This is the only natural lake in Texas.
What is Caddo Lake?
Water boils at this temperature.
The movement of water down into the surface of the earth.
What is infiltration?
Most of the water used indoors occurs in this part of the house.
What is the bathroom?
What is evaporation?
This river runs through Texas' capitol city.
What is the Colorado River?
The chemical symbol for water.
What is H2O?
In this process, precipitation makes it way back into underground aquifers.
What is recharge?
This term refers to the wise and responsible use of water.
What is conservation?
In this process, water vapor becomes a liquid.
What is condensation?
What are wild pigs?
What is fluoride?
When water is pumped out of an aquifer faster than it is replaced, this happens.
What is aquifer depletion, or what is depletion?
On average, doing this uses 26 percent of all the water in the house.
What is flushing a toilet?
Wearing down or washing away of soil by water, wind or ice.
What is erosion?
This body of water is located just offshore of Galveston?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
What is 8? More precisely water weights 8.25 pounds.
This forms around a water well as water is being pumped out from an aquifer.
What is a cone of depletion?
This term is used to describe an area of land that is frequently saturated with water, and provides habitat to many plants and wildlife.