The Three States of Water
What are the three states of water?
Solid, liquid, and gas.
What is a form of precipitation?
rain, hail, sleet, snow
What is the largest source of fresh water on Earth?
Glaciers and ice caps.
What is the main difference between salt water and fresh water?
Salt water contains salt; fresh water does not.
Which system includes all the water on Earth?
hydrosphere
What do we call water in its solid state?
Ice.
What is condensation?
Where water turns from a gas or vapor to a liquid
What do we call the access to groundwater?
Aquifers
What percentage of Earth's water is freshwater?
3%
What is the atmosphere
air, the gases surrinding the Earth
What happens to water's state when it boils?
It changes from a liquid to a gas (steam).
What is precipitation?
Where water turns from a vapor to a liquid.
When water is too heavy so it falls to the Earth
Which sources of fresh water are accessible?
surface water (lakes, rivers, streams) and groundwater (aquifers)
How much of the Earth is covered in water?
71 %
What are the four systems of Earth?
Geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere.
When water freezes, which state does it become?
Solid
What is evaporation?
When water changes from a liquid to a water vapor.
What percentage of Earth's freshwater is Ice caps and glaciers?
68.7%
What percentage of Earth's water is salt water, and where is it mostly located?
97% and in the oceans
What is the biosphere?
What is the process called when water vapor turns back into liquid water?
Condensation
The water that falls to the ground as precipitation and runs over the surface of the Earth is called _____.
Runoff
What percentage of Freshwater is not Ice caps and glaciers?
31.3%
What is an estuary?
A place where fresh water meets salt water.
Give an example of how the systems are interconnected?
multiple answers-
Changes in one system can affect the others, like how water (hydrosphere) supports life (biosphere).