Study Guide Questions
What are three states water can exist in?
What is
1. Solid
2.Liquid
3. Gas?
What is the water cycle?
What is the movement between the atmosphere, land, oceans, and living things.
How much of the earth surface is covered glaciers?
What is approximately 10%?
List the main parts of the water cycle.
What is
1.evaporation
2.condensation
3.precipitation
4.transpiration?
Describe how precipitation forms
What are glaciers? What is another name for a glacier?
Glaciers are frozen rivers. Glaciers can be called rivers of ice.
What are two things the water cycle transports?
What is energy and matter?
Name types of precipitation.
Hail, sleet, rain, snow and freezing rain.
What happened to glaciers as a slowly travel downhill due to gravity?
What is some glaciers flow to the ocean?
How long has Earth been recycling water?
What is billions of years?
When a solid it turns into a gas without turning into a liquid it's called?
What is sublimation.
What is another name for the water cycle?
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The amount of runoff that can happen depends on?
Physical features of land, nature of the soil, amount of precipitation.