Vocabulary 1
The average typical weather conditions in a region of the world
What is climate?
When water vapor touches a cool surface and becomes liquid water
Where most of Earth's water is located
What is the oceans?
A solid heating up and becoming a liquid
What is melting?
Water in its gaseous state
What is water vapor?
A less than normal amount of rain or snow over a period of time.
What is drought?
A large mass of ice that along with ice caps contains about seventy precent of Earth's fresh water
What is a glacier?
Where most of Earth's FRESH water is located
Ice caps and glaciers
A liquid cooling off and becoming a solid
What is freezing?
Frozen condensation
What is frost?
What is a climatologist?
The global water recycling system - the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
What is 1 percent?
Where plants with long roots get most of their water
What is groundwater?
What is a liquid to a gas?
To use again
What is recycle?
Water found in spaces between rock particles(sand, gravel, pebbles) and in cracks and spaces in solid rock
What is groudwater?
The daily or current conditions of the atmosphere
What is weather?
When precipitation/water flows away from a surface
What is runoff?
Phase change for condensation
What is a gas to a liquid?
What is a thunderstorm?
The process by which liquid water turns to water vapor
What is evaporation?
The source of energy that creates Earth's water cycle
What is the sun?
The process of losing water through the leaves on a plant
What is transpiration?
The three states of matter
solid, liquid and gas