Water basics
This is what living things need to live.
What is water?
This is the continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface, to the atmosphere, and back.
What is the water cycle?
True or false: Lakes are still while rivers flow.
What is true?
This separates one watershed from another.
What is a divide?
Thermal energy is also known as ________.
What is heat?
Water provides _________ for many living things.
What are habitats?
This is the process of water being absorbed through leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
These are flooded forests with trees and shrubs sprouting from the water, found mainly in warm or humid climates.
What are swamps?
What is the water table?
These are large streams of moving water that flows through the ocean.
What are currents?
True or false: 97% of the Earth's water is freshwater.
What is false?
This is when groundwater collects from precipitation.
What is runoff or accumulation?
These are wetlands located along the coast.
What are coastal wetlands?
If water is flowing through underground rock, the soil is considered _______________.
What is permeable?
This is the pattern of temperature and precipitation typical of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
True or false: Erie is one of the oceans.
What is false?
The water cycle is driven by the _________.
What is the sun?
This is an area of land is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.
What is a wetland?
If people take water from a well faster than it can refill, the water level will ___________.
What is drop?
True or false: El Nino brings in cold weather.
What is false?
Most animals cannot survive more than a few _______ without water.
H2O (g) ---> H2O (l)
What is condensation?
This is when nutrients build up on top of a lake.
What is eutrophication?
These are the different sizes holes or spaces underground.
The _______________ makes storms swirl clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?