Vocabulary
water found beneath Earth's surface
groundwater
True or False. The water cycle only occurs at certain times.
False
What does the number on the bottom of a bottle mean?
type of plastic and used for recycling
What is the largest river in the world?
Nile
Plastic Bag
20 years or 200 years
200 years
The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces.
Porosity
What powers the water cycle?
The Sun
The less porous the rock is, the ______ water it can hold. (More or less)
less
What is the second largest river in the world? Which continent is it on?
Amazon, South America
orange peels
6 months or 1 year
a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean
watershed
What are three forms of precipitation?
snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain
What are three renewable resources?
water, air, trees, dirt
From our slide, what are three uses of surface water?
drinking water, water to grow crops, power for industry
Plastic Bottles
100 years, 300 years, 500 years
500 years
The ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through it open spaces or pores.
permeability
What is the first step of the water cycle?
evaporation
What is the name of the watershed we are a part of? Name 3 states that are included.
Chesapeake Watershed
MD, Delaware, PA, New York, West Virginia, Virginia
What the three places we get water from in Harford County?
Loch Raven, Susquehanna and ground water
Styrofoam
25 days, 10 months, 85 years, Never
never
an underground formation that contains groundwater.
aquifer
What are the 4 steps of the water cycle?
condensation, preciptiation, transpiration, evaporation
What are 5 examples of surface water?
streams, rivers, oceans, lakes and wetlands
What percentage of the water on the planet is found in the atmosphere and surface water?
atmosphere .2% and surface water .3%
for leaves to decompose
1-3 days, 1-3 weeks, 1-3 months or 6-9 months
1-3 months