Definitions
What is the word that goes with this definition?
Falling water in liquid from.
Answer: Rain
What is precipitation?
Answer: Precipitation is the process of water falling onto the surface of the earth.
How old is fresh water?
Answer: Fresh water is millions of years old.
water falls from the sky/cloud.
Answer: What is precipitation/rain?
What word goes with this definition?
Rain that falls onto land and makes a different path to a river.
Answer: Surface Run-off
What is snow/sleet?
Answer: Falling water in solid or frozen form.
What are some places the Earth stores water?
Answer(s): Rain, snow, rivers, etc.
(Rain, snow, rivers, ground water, ponds, clouds, the ocean, streams, ice, lakes, and reservoirs)
Water vaporizes into a gas.
Answer: What is evaporation?
What word goes with this definition?
When the rain hits the soil's surface and sinks into the ground.
Answer: Infiltration
What is mist?
Answer: Mist is falling water in gas or vapor form.
What is the number one human use of water?
Answer: Watering crops
Water percolates into the ground.
Answer: What is Infiltration
What word goes with this definition?
Through or across a plant.
Answer: Transpiration
What is evaporation?
Answer: Evaporation is water turned from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
How much of the earth is covered in water?
Answer: about 70%
Water vapor turns into liquid water.
Answer: What is condensation?
What word goes with this definition?
Going into invisible water vapor or clouds.
Answer: Condensation
What is interception?
Answer: Interception is when raindrops fall down to the ground but get caught on leaves or branches of a tree.
What percentage of the Earth's water is fresh water?
Answer: 1% (97% salt water, 2% ice)
Water that flows from streams and rivers into the ocean.
Answer: What is run-off?