Above the Ground
This is where the water vapor that evaporates off of plant leaves goes.
What is the atmosphere?
When water cannot be absorbed by rock and soil it usually becomes this.
What is runoff?
This is what water absorbed into rock and soil is called.
What is ground water, or underground water?
Water entering the atmosphere goes through this process.
What is evaporation?
These are the states of matter that water shifts between.
What are solid, liquid, & gas?
When water vapor in the atmosphere condenses it becomes these.
What are clouds?
Water that gets stored in a specific location is ______.
What is accumulated?
What is saturated?
This is water that falls to the Earth as a solid or liquid.
What is precipitation?
This is the percentage of the Earth that is covered by water.
What is 70%?
Precipitation falls from this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
All the fresh water on Earth's surface is accessible.
What is false?
What is an aquifer?
When water is absorbed into the ground.
What is infiltration?
What are snow, sleet, or hail?
The particles in water vapor move ______ that the particles in liquid or solid water.
What is faster?
This is the boundary of ground that is saturated.
What is the water table?
This process is specific to plants and how they put water back into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Most of the evaporated water in the atmosphere came from these locations on Earth.
What are oceans?
Rain and snow fall out of clouds because they are more __________.
What is dense.
(Ms. Sotnik's favorite Earth science word!)
Most of the fresh water on the Earth's surface is in this state.
What is solid (frozen)?
Water on Earth originally came from this substance.
What is magma?
What is none?
This phenomenon occurs when water droplets condense near the ground.
What is fog?