Water Cycle
This is what occurs when you heat up water while it is in liquid form.
What is evaporation?
This is the term used when a river starts to reach a larger body of water.
What is delta/mouth?
Aquifers contain this.
What is water?
You need this element to breathe.
What is Oxygen?
The Lake Erie water crisis is a serious problem. The main suspected cause is the runoff from farmer's fields, containing fertilizer and manure that make algae flourish. However, it's sort of the water's fault, because it (the water) is really good at doing this to everything, including the nitrogen and phosphorous in the fertilizer.
What is dissolving?
Animals consume water in this process.
What is consumption?
DAILY DOUBLE-When a river reaches its end and empties out, it deposits this to form a delta.
What is sediment/soil?
This is the line where an aquifer and dry soil meet.
What is the water table?
When moist air is forced up a mountain, these kinds of climates are found on the other side of the mountain.
What are arid/desert climates?
Water goes from a ___ to a ___ in condensation.
What is a gas to a liquid?
Rivers always flow into these. (be specific)
What are lakes/seas/oceans?
This kind of rock must be on the surface to let percolation occur.
What is permeable rock?
Ocean currents are caused by differences in what?
What is thermal energy?
Water flows from higher elevations to lower elevations in this process.
What is flow?
This term refers to the area where streams, creeks, tributaries, etc. come together to flow into a river.
What is a watershed?
This term refers to an area where precipitation can refill aquifers.
What are recharge zones?
These kinds of chemicals contain hydronium ions and taste sour. They also turn red with litmus paper.
What are acids?
When water vapor reaches the upper Troposphere, it loses most of its thermal energy to become water in this state of matter.
What is a liquid?
This term can refer to a larger stream that flows into a river or payment made to a ruler.
What is tributary?
When a crack forms in an aquifer cap, pressure causes these to happen.
What is a spring?
DAILY DOUBLE- Helium has this many electrons in its outer shell.
What is 2?