Water Cycle- Land
The downward process of moving water from the land surface into soil or porous rock.
What is infiltration?
When the sun makes a puddle disappear.
What is evaporation?
This happens after condensation in the atmosphere.
What is precipitation?
Water molecules do this at 0 degrees celsius.
What is crystallize or freeze?
These are four types of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, hail, and sleet?
Run off always travels ______.
What is downhill?
Water changing from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
the process where water vapor in the air changes directly into a solid (ice or snow) without becoming liquid first
What is deposition?
a form of solid precipitation consisting of balls or irregular lumps of ice, formed in strong thunderstorms.
What is hail?
These two processes help transport water from the oceans to inland areas.
What are condensation & precipitation?
A groundwater resevoir; usually describes water bearing rock formations.
What is an aquifer?
in condensation, a ____ of energy allows water molecules to bond
What is a loss or decrease?
This contains all the water vapor above ground.
What is the atmosphere?
Precipitation in the form of soft, white ice crystals that form in clouds when water vapor freezes directly into ice at temperatures below freezing, then fall to Earth as individual crystals.
What is snow?
Ground that stays frozen for two or more consecutive years is considered this.
What is permafrost?
The process of water accumulating in an area.
What is collection?
____ breaks bonds that hold water molecules together
What is energy or heat?
the process in which water vapor in the air is changed into water
What is condensation?
precipitation that falls as small, translucent ice pellets, forming when snowflakes melt in a warm air layer and then refreeze in a colder layer near the ground.
What is sleet?
Transpiration happens through these microscopic openings in plant leaves.
What are stoma/ stomata?
This is the driving force for runoff.
What is gravity?
molecules move ____ at boiling point 100 degrees Celsius
What is faster or apart?
Water molecules do this the further away they get from the ground.
What is lose energy or cool?
The process of snow and ice changing into water vapor without first melting into water.
What is sublimation?
This is the process of a liquid slowly passing through a porous material, like water seeping through soil or coffee brewing in a percolator.
What is percolation?