Definitions 1
What is it called when liquid water becomes a gas?
Evaporation
What is it called when water falls to the earth?
Precipitation
What is it called when plants release water as water vapour into the air from their leaves?
Transpiration
What causes liquid water to evaporate and turn in to water vapour?
An increase in temperature caused by the sun
Name three types of precipitation.
Snow, rain, sleet and hail.
What is it called when water vapour turns into liquid?
Condensation
What is it called when plants absorb water from the ground?
Plant Uptake
What is it called when water moves through the soil into a body of water?
Groundwater Flow
Why does water infiltrate the ground?
Gravity (If you said because the soil is dry, that is also right)
Name two different places surface flow can occur.
On the side of a mountain, hill and inclined surface or in a river, a stream, and a creek.
What is it called when water moves through the atmosphere?
Transportation
What is it called when water vapour turns directly into solid ice?
Deposition
What causes water vapour in the atmosphere to condense into a liquid?
A drop in temperature
What is require in order to have surface runoff?
A difference in height (gravity)
Plants uptake water in the roots utilizing what property of water?
Adhesion, cohesion and capillary action (If you said one of these you are correct)
What is it called when water flows down a surface due to gravity?
Surface Runoff
What is it called when water enters the soil?
Infiltration
In what state and location is water transported?
As a gas in the atmosphere
Where does deposition of ice typically occur?
High altitudes (Mountains)
What do we call something that taps into the groundwater so that it can be used by people?
A well
What is it called when water moves downward through the soil because of gravity?
Percolation
What is it called when ice and snow turn directly into water vapour?
Sublimation
Where does water typically sublimate from?
At high altitudes (Mountains)
What causes groundwater flow?
The infiltration of water into the ground and the percolation of water through the soil.
What is the structure found in plants that releases water vapour called?
Stomata