This occurs when liquid water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
This is composed of all the water on Earth from the deepest ocean to seas, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and to the icebergs.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
Most of Earth's precipitation lands here.
What is the ocean?
100
Water above Earth's surface
What is surface water?
100
The process responsible for most of the water in the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
200
This is any form of water that falls to Earth from clouds.
What is precipitation?
200
This is a mixture of gas and small particles located above and surrounding Earth's surface.
What is the atmosphere?
200
All of the water on land flows downhill because of gravity. Streams, rivers, and the water that flows over land are all this type of water movement.
What is runoff?
200
Water found in the spaces between rock particles below Earth's surface.
What is ground water?
200
THREE ways in which water reaches the atmosphere
What are evaporation, transpiration, and sublimation?
300
This is a change of state from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
This sphere contains all the solid portions of Earth including rock, minerals, landforms, and the processes that shape Earth's surface.
What is the lithosphere?
300
The process when some of the water on Earth's surface seeps into the ground.
What is infiltration?
300
Water that flows across Earth's surface
What is runoff?
300
The water cycle transports two main things
What are energy and matter?
400
This is the release of water vapor by plants.
What is transpiration?
400
This is the alternative name for the lithosphere.
What is the geosphere?
400
These are known as "rivers of ice" because gravity causes them to flow downhill like rivers.
What is a glacier?
400
The movement of water between the atmosphere, land, oceans, and even living things
What is the water cycle?
400
The percentage of water in the atmosphere that comes from evaporation
What is 90%?
500
This process is when solid water changes directly to water vapor, without first becoming a liquid.
What is sublimation?
500
This sphere consists of all living things on Earth from the living trees, to the birds, insects and animals on land, to the dark underground caves, and on the bottom of the ocean around hydrothermal vents.
What is the biosphere?
500
This process is when winds move ocean water as surface currents and temperature can cause deep ocean currents.
What is ocean circulation?
500
Another name for the water cycle (SPELLING COUNTS)
What is the hydrologic cycle?
500
The four spheres of Earth
What is the atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?