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.
At what percent of glaciers cover up Earth?
What is 10%?
Evaporation
What is water vapor from boiling water?
Sublimation
The process in which solid changes directly into a gas.
List the main parts of the water cycle.
What is
1.evaporation
2.condensation
3.precipitation
4.transpiration?
Describe how precipitation forms
Runoff is...?
Streams, rivers, and water that flows downhill over land.
Transpiration
What is plants evaporating water?
Transpiration
The process by which plants release water vapor into the air through a stomata; also the release of water vapor into the air by other organisms.
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 is another word for glacier?
What is rivers of ice?
Condensation
What is water on waterbottles?
Evaporation
The change of state from a liquid to a gas.
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.
Where does runoff flow?
What is oceans, lakes and marshlands?
Precipatition
What is rain?
Condensation
The change of state from gas to a liquid.
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.
What happens to glaciers as they flow downhill due to gravity?
What is they break off and flow to the ocean?
Sublimation
What is dry ice?
Precipitation
Any form of water that falls to earth surface from clouds; rain, snow, hail, sleet, freezing rain.