Water Cycle (a)
Water in the form of gas
water vapor
This is the mechanism through which water travels down through the ground.
infiltration
This is is the process water filtering through the soil to reach groundwater below
Infiltration
The is the process where clouds move from place to place.
transportation
What is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle
Runoff
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process?
transpiration
This percentage of the water on Earth is fresh water.
About 3%
You have 1 minute to draw the best duck you can!
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If you can spell E................. (word for water vapour rising) you get 200 points!
Evaporation
What is it called when water moves from the atmosphere to the earth?
precipitation.
Name three forms of precipitation.
rain, hail, and snow.
A group of tiny water droplets gathered in the atmosphere.
a cloud.
State of matter when water is frozen.
a solid.
What is the process of turning from a liquid to a gas called?
What is evaporation
This is when water gathers together on the ground.
Accumulation
When water changes from a solid to a liquid.
melting.
Where is most of the water on Earth stored
Oceans
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
the Sun
The fraction of the Earth that is covered by water?
3/4
What is it called when water travels through oceans, the atmosphere and land over and over again.
the water cycle.
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Do the chicken dance for 20 seconds and you get those points!
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The largest pieces of frozen water are called this.
glaciers
When water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere traps thermal energy from the Sun, the Greenhouse Effect happens, causing this.
Global Warming
When water vapor changes to a liquid
condensation.
This is water that moves under the Earth's surface?
groundwater