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This is water in its gas form.
What is water vapor?
100
What is rain, sleet, hail, or snow that falls from clouds in the sky called?
What is precipitation?
100
The continuous movement of water between land, ocean, and air by natural processes is called the __________.
What is the water cycle?
100
Water vapor cools and condenses to form these.
What are clouds?
100
Water droplets on the outside of your cold lemonade cup is an example of which of the water cycle's processes?
What is condensation?
200
Identify 3 of the processes of the water cycle.
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration, Runoff, Sublimation, Infiltration
200
True or False: Humans have easy access to most of the water on Earth.
What is False?
200
True or False: When a liquid changes to a gas it is called precipitation
What is false
200
True or False. The water cycle has no real beginning or end.
What is true?
200
True or False: Water molecules move very quickly through the water cycle.
What is false?
300
Name 3 forms of precipitation.
rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
300
What percentage of the Earth's water is freshwater?
2.5%
300
True or False: Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, which acts like a blanket around the planet to trap heat.
What is true?
300
When water runs off Earth's surface, it collects in __________, __________, and ________.
(name at least two places)
lakes, rivers, and oceans.
300
What does heat from the sun cause liquid water to do?
What is evaporation
400
What percentage of the Earth is water?
71%
400
What are the two main driving forces in the Water Cycle?
Sun's Energy and the Earth's Gravity
400
The process in which water seeps into the ground below.
What is infiltration?
400
Name the process shown in #1
What is Evaporation
400
What are 3 examples of reserviors?
What are lakes, oceans, groundwater, glaciers, ice caps, and the atmosphere?
500
What is the name of the process when water vapor becomes liquid?
Condensation
500
Water that reaches the surface and flows downward due to gravity is called what?
What is runoff?
500
Water that is stored underground between solid particles and rock layers.
groundwater
500
Most of Earth's freshwater is tied up in these.
What are glaciers and ice caps?
500
Solid ice or snow changing directly to water vapor.
What is sublimation?