Terms and Phrases
This is the process where water vapor rises into the sky, cools and turns back into a liquid, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
This human activity uses the most water.
What is agriculture/irrigation?
Also known as thunderstorm clouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
When something holds as much water as can be absorbed, we say that it is this.
What is saturated?
What do we call water that runs over the ground rather than soaks into it? This water will eventually make its way into rivers and streams.
What is runoff?
The percentage of space in rocks or substrate.
What is porosity?
What is the largest source of fresh water on Earth?
What are glaciers and icebergs?
Low clouds that are grayish and often cover the entire sky. Composed of water droplets, supercooled water droplets, or ice crystals (depends on temp)
The process where rain water starts to soak into the ground is known as this.
What is infiltration?
What reservoir in the water cycle contains the most water found on Earth?
What are the oceans?
This is the part of the plant that allows water escape back to the atmosphere.
What are the stomatas?
We are testing this when we look at the cloudiness of water.
What is turbidity?
This forms when thunderstorm updrafts are strong enough to carry water droplets well above the freezing level. They have been known to become larger than a golf ball.
What is hail?
A collection of wet, underground rocks that allow water to pass through them slowly.
What is an aquifer?
When water vapor evaporates directly from glacial ice, the process is called
What is sublimation?
We call a substrate this when water has a difficult time passing through it.
What is impervious/impermeable?
This property of water allows water to stick to other surfaces.
What is adhesion?
High, wispy clouds composed of ice formed from freezing of supercooled water droplets.
What are cirrus clouds?
What is a place where groundwater naturally seeps out of the ground called?
What is a spring?
Name one of the two ways that arsenic can enter into our groundwater?
What are mining and natural processes?
The sum total of evaporation and transpiration of water.
What is evapotransporation?
What property of water is the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of something 1 ºC?
What is specific heat?
What layer of the atmosphere does most weather occur?
What is the troposphere?
What type of aquifer has an impervious layer above and below it where water cannot get out?
What is a confined aquifer?
What layer of the atmosphere do humans live in?
What is the troposphere?