Water Vocab
Humans have been able to create artificial lakes that are formed behind dams. What are these artificial lakes called?
reservoir
What word is used to describe rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling from the clouds?
precipitation
Clouds can be made up of two different substances. What are these two substances?
water droplets or ice crystals
Which type of water is found in groundwater, rivers, lakes, and ice?
fresh water
When the ground begins to collect water, it gathers in something called "groundwater". The top level of groundwater in an aquifer is called what?
water table
What word is used to describe the change of liquid water to water vapor during the water cycle?
evaporation
What are the three main types of clouds?
cirrus, stratus, and cumulus
97% of the Earth's water is which type of water?
ocean water
What word describes a measure of how salty water is?
salinity
What word is used to describe when water vapor changes back into a liquid, especially as water droplets in clouds?
What causes most melting, evaporation, and sublimation during the water cycle?
the sun
Which ocean is the largest ocean on Earth?
the Pacific Ocean
What is the name for the gas form of water?
water vapor
When rain freezes right before it hits the ground, it turns into which form of precipitation?
sleet
When water vapor freezes into ice crystals it forms what?
frost
What are the names of the 5 oceans on the Earth?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic
What is the name of the layer of rock and soil that hold groundwater?
aquifer
When ice changes right into water vapor without melting first, what is the change called?
sublimation
Hail forms when strong winds blow raindrops back into a cloud, where it becomes ice. It then collects more water, becoming too heavy for the cloud to hold, so it falls to the ground.
About 70% of Earth's fresh water can be found where?
frozen into ice sheets and glaciers