Water Water Everywhere
The change of a substances from a liquid to a gas.
The continuous cycle that stores water and moves it from the atmosphere to the earth’s surface and back is called this.
Water Cycle
A large mass of moving ice that forms on land and remains there from year to year.
Glacier
Water that seeps into the soil.
Groundwater
Small streams of ground water.
Springs
The change of a substance from a gas to a liquid.
Condensation
When water vapor in the air cools to the point that visible drops of water form.
Dew Point
Grainy ice.
Firn
A circular depression in the ground that happens when an area underground collapses.
Sinkhole
Hot groundwater that comes to the surface.
Hot Spring
The change of a solid directly into a gas without passing through a liquid state.
Sublimation
The saturation point of air.
Relative Humidity
Crevasses
An area underground that can hold large amounts of water.
Aquifer
A hot spring that periodically erupts.
Geyser
The loss of water by plants.
Transpiration
Water that falls from the atmosphere to the earth.
Precipitation
Dense ice in glaciers forms this color of ice.
Blue
The amount of open spaces in rock.
Porosity
The path a stream follows.
Channel
The cohesive force that pulls molecules on the surface of a liquid together and creates layers.
Surface Tension
A substance's ability to absorb heat energy.
Specific Heat
A glacier that covers a large area of land.
Continental Glacier
The area that separates the zone of aeration from the zone of saturation.
Water Table
A stream or river that flows into a larger body of water.
Tributary