Water Cycle Basics
What are the two main forces that drive the water cycle
What are the Sun’s energy and Earth’s gravity?
What clouds are mostly made of
What are tiny liquid water droplets?
The process where plants release water vapor
What is transpiration?
The effect that causes one side of a mountain to be dry
What is the rain shadow effect?
What burning fossil fuels release into the air
What are particles or aerosols?
The process where liquid water turns into water vapor
What is evaporation?
What happens to air temperature as it rises
What is it cools down?
One way animals release water back into the environment
What is sweating or urination?
How rising temperatures affect the entire water cycle
What is it speeds up the water cycle?
How air particles affect sunlight
What is they reflect sunlight back into space?
The process where water vapor turns into liquid droplets
What is condensation?
What type of precipitation increases with warmer temperatures
What is rain?
How deforestation affects the water cycle
What is it reduces transpiration and water movement?
The type of snow caused by cold air moving over warm lakes
What is lake-effect snow?
What building dams does to water flow
What is it changes and stores water flow?
The stage when water falls from clouds to Earth
What is precipitation?
What causes water droplets to fall as precipitation
What is gravity pulling them down when they get too heavy?
Why sweat leaves salt behind on skin
What is because water evaporates but salt does not?
Why the far side of a mountain is dry
What is the air has already lost its moisture?
What happens when groundwater is overused
What is less water is stored underground?
The process of water soaking into the ground
What is infiltration?
The process of water forming ice crystals in clouds
What is crystallization?
How living things help continue the water cycle
What is by taking in and releasing water?
The force that causes water to flow downhill
What is gravity?
A major way humans change the water cycle
What is altering how water moves and is stored?