Water Cycle (a)
What water cycle vocab word would best describe how a dryer dries your clothes?
What is Evaporation?
When liquid changes slowly to a gas.
What is evaporation?
When water vapor changes to a liquid
What is condensation?
What are dependent upon the availability of ocean water?
What is evaporation & precipitation?
The Water Cycle creates what % of useable water for humans?
What is 1%?
When water flows over the Earth's surface and gathers in lakes, oceans, and streams.
What is surface runoff?
When gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
The result of a decrease in air pressure
What is an increase in precipitation?
After precipitation occurs, water that does not run off into surface water can seep into the soil and be stored in the _________.
What is an underground freshwater supply or aquifers?
Water is stored in?
What is the earth's surface, ice caps, or glaciers?
Name the four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow?
When water is in a gas state.
What is water vapor?
The factor that has the least effect on the water cycle
What is the source of the water?
Low and high pressure does what to the water cycle?
What is speeds up and slows down?
True or False. Chemicals we use affect the Water Cycle?
What is True?
A continuous flow in which water from the Earth moves through the environment changing from one state to another.
What is the Water Cycle?
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
The effect of increased temperature on the evaporation rate?
What is the evaporation rate will increase?
Temperature is determined by what?
What is the solar energy of the sun?
True or False. Do plants sweat just like humans?
What is true?
Water transforms between different states of matter due to ...
What is Temperature Differences?
The largest % of Earth's water is found in which reservoir?
What is the ocean?
A term used to describe an effect on the water cycle due to the weight of the air
What is pressure?
Which 3 factors strongly influence the behavior of the water cycle?
What is temperature, pressure, and topography?
Every loaf of bread we at takes ______ gallons of water from the water cycle.
What is 570?