Vocabulary
Precipitation
Earth System
Critical Thinking
State of Matter
100
What is evaporation?
When a liquid turns into a gas.
100
What is precipitation?
Precipitation is when a cloud expels water from the atmosphere back to Earth. The water can be liquid water or solid water.
100
How much of Earth's surface is covered in sal water?
Over 97% of Earth's surface is covered in salt water.
100
Which type of water can we humans drink?
We humans can only drink surface level freshwater because it is the safest kind.
100
What are the three states of matter
Solid, liquid, and gas.
200
What is an engineer?
A person who uses science knowledge to design something in order to solve a problem.
200
What are the four types of precipitation?
The four types of precipitation are rain drops, snow, sleet, and hail.
200
Can we humans drink groundwater? Why or why not?
No, we humans cannot drink groundwater because it has too many rocks, minerals, dirt, and salt that we humans cannot drink. If we do it drink, it may cause us to get sick.
200
How can people affect the amount of freshwater that is available on planet Earth?
People can affect the amount of freshwater available on Earth by pollution, over use, and drought.
200
Which type of matte can you not see?
You cannot see gas with your eyes.
300
What is a molecule?
A group of atoms joined together in a particular way.
300
What is water vapor?
Water vapor is water in the gaseous state when it travels up to the atmosphere with the sun's rays.
300
How much of Earth's surface is actually surface level freshwater that we can drink?
Less than 3% of Earth's surface has surface level freshwater.
300
What is the difference between freshwater and surface level freshwater?
Feshwater comes from glaciers and ice. Surface level freshwater comes from lakes, rivers wetlands.
300
How does the temperature in the atmosphere play an effect in the type of precipitation that falls back to Earth?
The temperature in the atmosphere and inside the cloud determines the type and size or precipitation that forms inside the cloud.
400
What is matter?
The stuff that things are made of.
400
What is the hydrosphere?
A hydrosphere is all the liquid and ice on Earth.
400
Using this picture, what location would the temperature most likely be the coldest?
Location D would be the coldest temperature because its location is in the atmosphere, where the temperature of the air is at its coldest. This is where the water vapor condenses the individual molecules and forms water droplets to make clouds.
400
Can too much precipitation be a reason why there is a water shortage?
No, this is not a reason why a water shortage happens. Precipitation is how plants, animals, and humans get water. It also make the Earth healthy by putting the water that was taken back on Earth.
400
What is the size of a hailstone? Can hail cause damage?
Hailstones can be between the sizing of 0.2in in diameter to the size of a softball. Hail can cause damage since it is literal balls of ice falling from the atmosphere back to Earth.
500
What is the atmosphere?
The layer of gases ( the air that surrounds Earth) surrounding the Earth.
500
What is the difference between snow, sleet, and hail?
All three of these precipitation is solid water, but what makes them different is how they are formed in the clouds.
500
Which mountain height will produce a rain shadow, a tall mountain or a short mountain, and why?
The tall mountain will produce a rain shadow because the higher the landform, the more shadowing is created by the height.
500
How does Earth's water get recycled?
Earth's water gets recycled by going through the water cycle process. First, the sun's rays shin down on a body of water. From the heat of the rays, the water gets evaporated and travels up to the atmosphere as water vapor. Then, the water vapor condenses into other water vapor to make water molecules and forms a cloud. When the cloud can no longer hold the water, it then releases it and it falls back down to Earth as precipitation. This precipitation travels back down through a run-off stream and goes back to the body of water that collected other forms of precipitation.
500
What is the difference between snow, sleet, and hail? What is similar about all three
All three forms of these precipitation are solid forms of water. What is different is how they form inside the clouds in the atmosphere.
Snow is when temperatures form water vapor directly into ice because of how cold the air is. Inside the cloud, the water vapor turns into crystals and falls back down to Earth. Each crystal has its own unique shape and pattern.
Sleet is when rain drops freeze inside the cloud and become little bits of ice. When it falls back to the ground, it falls as bits of ice due to the temperature near the ground.
Hail is when drops of water molecules inside the collie with the bits of ice that are in the same cloud. The water droplets freeze into ice and forms into hailstones when it falls down to Earth.