The Water Cycle
What provides the energy for the water cycle?
The sun
Is there more land or water on Earth?
Water
How does gravity affect water?
It causes water to flow downhill.
True or False? In general, larger spaces between soil particles will let MORE water flow through. Smaller spaces between soil particles will let LESS water flow through.
True
What is the speed like for warmer molecules vs. colder molecules?
Faster
This is the main process by which water goes from the ground to vapor in the atmosphere.
Evaporation
What are 3 different ways people use water?
Drinking, agriculture, industry, etc.
What is a land area that drains water into a specific body of water, such as a lake, river, or stream?
Watershed
What do we call the soil's ability to allow water to pass through it?
Permeability
Density
When water falls from the atmosphere back to land
Precipitation
Approximately what percent of the water on Earth is saltwater?
97%
What happens to pollution in a watershed?
It can flow downhill with the water, which eventually leads to the ocean. It is something humans need to deal with/clean up if they plan to use the water or don't want it to negatively affect nature.
What do we call the soil's ability to store water in spaces between the grains?
Porosity
Explain how density plays a role in the convection currents in the ocean?
Warm water rises pushing colder, denser water down. The cold water rushes to take the place where the warm water used to be. Once it gets heated it keeps the cycle going
The process of water vapor becoming liquid water when it cools
Condensation
Approximately what percent of the water on Earth is freshwater?
3%
What do we call rain and snow melting and flowing into streams, rivers, lakes, and to the ocean?
Runoff
What is rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater?
An aquifer
What is the weather like for cities along a coast that is near a warm ocean current?
Warmer winters, cooler summers, and possibly wetter due to higher humidity.
When plants release water on to their leaves that then evaporates into vapor
Transpiration
Explain why the Earth always has enough water.
Water continues to go through the water cycle. We do not gain or lose any significant amount of water.
Name two watersheds that we belong to?
Licking River Watershed, Ohio River Watershed, Mississippi River Watershed
How can people get access to water stored in an aquifer?
Dig a well and pump it up
Describe the flow of the Gulf Stream Current.
Warm water carries water quickly along the coast of the Eastern United States to cooler parts of the Atlantic ocean. And as it travels to Europe, it starts to slow down.