Water Cycle
another name for the water cycle
What is the Hydrologic Cycle?
The percentage of all water on our planet that is freshwater
What is 3%?
Wrapping gifts with newspaper instead of buying new wrapping paper is an example of what?
What is reusing?
the process that happens when liquid or solid water falls from the sky
True or False: The total amount of water on our planet does not change.
What is true?
True or False: Glaciers and ice caps represent the smallest portion of freshwater on Earth
What is false?
a natural process that occurs when gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun, warming the planet's surface and lower atmosphere
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
water found in glaciers, lakes, rivers, and groundwater that contains a low salt content
What is fresh water?
the process during which plants release moisture into the air
What is transpiration?
an area where water keeps some shallow areas flooded and saturated the ground
What are wetlands?
What is acid rain?
an area that collects rainfall and melting snow from a high point; drain into larger bodies of water
What is a watershed?
the two major factors that are enable the water cycle to successfully function
What is the heat of the sun and the force of gravity?
a large, slow-moving, long-lasting accumulation of snow and ice that develops on land
What is a glacier?
What is air pollution?
when water vapor loses thermal energy and becomes a liquid
What is condensation?
The water cycle is a ______________ movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface, transitioning between liquid, solid, and gas states
What is continuous?
What are lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, swamps, glaciers, and groundwater?
The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock
What is agriculture/farming?
all of the living and nonliving things surrounding an organism
What is the environment?