The Water Cycle
What is precipitation?
This natural stream of water flows into other bodies of water such as oceans or lakes.
What is a river?
The sphere that includes rock and metal.
What is the geosphere?
The Earth is made up of three percent of this, which is mostly in a frozen state.
What is fresh water?
Features such as coastlines, dunes and mountains.
What are landforms?
The process by which water vapor becomes liquid water.
What is condensation?
A hill of sand piled up by the wind.
What is a dune?
This sphere includes all of the Earth's water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The place in which people can gather water that is located below the water table.
What is a well?
This type of system uses GPS, satellite images and other data to make interactive maps.
The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.
What is evaporation?
This landform has high elevation and high relief.
What is a mountain?
The sphere that contains all living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
This is the process in which water moves off the surface and into streams and lakes.
What is runoff?
On a topographic map, these help to show elevation, relief and slope of a land area.
What are contour lines?
The process by which water vapor is given off by plants.
What is transpiration?
The place where sediment like sand and clay builds up to make a landform.
What is a delta?
The Earth's outermost layer- made up of a mixture of gases.
What is the atmosphere?
The amount of dissolved salts in water is called this. It is often affected by rain, snow and melting ice.
What is salinity?
A plain that is located along a seacoast is called this.
What is coastal plain?
The two sources by which the water cycle is driven by.
What is the sun and gravity?
This landform has a high elevation but a low relief. Sometimes streams and rivers cut into them.
What is a plateau?
The frozen part of the hydrosphere.
What is the cryosphere?
Together, these flow into one larger river and make a river system.
Forces that build up land, such as mountains are called this.
What are constructive forces?