Water Cycle 1
When the sun heats up liquid water somewhere on the earth; this is the beginning of this process occurs.
What is evaporation?
When water vapor reaches the higher altitudes in the sky they cool and form clouds. This process is called
What is condensation
Any moisture that falls to the ground from clouds is called _____________?
What is precipitation?
The space between particles determines the soils _______.
What is its Porosityf?
Water that runs a top the soil and collects into the oceans, lakes, or rivers is known as?
What is runoff
These are the 3 states of matter of water.
What are gas, liquid, and solid?
The top of the aquifer or saturated zone is called the_________ ________
What is the water table
Evaporation turns liquid water into _________.
What is water vapor or gas?
During condensation water is changed from a gas to a ________.
What is a liquid?
Other names for precipitation are _________?
What is rain, snow, sleet and hail.
The area of soil above the saturation zone is known as
What is unsaturated zone or zone of aeration.
Water that falls back to earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow is known as?
What is Precipitation?
One of the most important resource to all living things and no living thing can survive without it.
What is water?
The area above the water table where soil and gravel provide water to pass through but does not hold water is the Zone of
What is the Zone of Aeration
The process that changes water vapor into a liquid "
What is a cooling?
What two processes that create water vapor in the Water Cycle
What is Evaporation and Transpiration?
When precipitation freezes it falls as ___________?
What is snow or hail or sleet?
The top of the saturation zone is known as this.
What is the water table?
The cycle when water moves in different states of matter from land to the sky to the land again over and over.
What is Water Cycle?
Most of the water that is evaporated on Earth comes from this non fresh water source.
What are oceans?
The aquifer is found in this Zone of ______________
What is Saturation
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What is another name for this air that surrounds the earth and made up of many layers of air.
Hint - Begins with A
What is the atmosphere?
67-69% of earth's fresh water is unavailable for usage by humans is located
What is in glaciers and at the Ice Caps?
Fog is another form of this water cycle process.
What is Condensation?
When water penetrates the surface of the soil
What is infiltration?
This is the process where water evaporates out of their leaves and stems
What is Transpiration?
The is the origin of energy that drives the Water Cycle.
What is the Sun?
In soil, the ability of water to flow is determined by particle size. If particle size increases, flow will increase.
What is Permeability
Evaporation involves 2 contributing factors They are _______ and ________.
What is Heat (sun) and Moisture or water?
Clouds and flags move around due to this ever present movement of air.
What is the wind?
When pieces of small round ice form in the clouds they fall as ________?
What is hail?
Water that infiltrates the soil and percolates or seeps into the earth and becomes stored
What is groundwater?
This process is when water infiltrates into the ground and then moves through the soil into the aquifer or saturated zone.
what is percolation?
A flow of water that bubbles out of the aquifer at the water table on the surface
What is a spring?
Flow through particles in soil is permeability
The space of particles in soil is
What is Porosity?