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