Basics
What is the water cycle?
How water goes from rivers to clouds and back down to earth.
What form can water be when it gets very cold?
Snow
What are the three states of water?
Steam, liquid, ice
Is the earth mostly land or water?
Water.
What is one things that causes evaporation?
The sun.
Name one way water comes back to the ground?
Rain, snow, hail.
What happens when snow melts?
It turns back into water.
What state is ice in?
Solid
True or False? All the water on earth gets recycled.
True.
What is the science name for when water falls from clouds?
Precipitation.
What do we call it when water turns into vapor?
Evaporation
How does snow help the ground?
When it melts, the water goes into the ground.
What state happens to water when it boils?
Gas
What body of water has salt water?
Oceans.
What happens to water in a puddle on a warm sunny day?
It evaporates.
What is it called when water cools and turns back into liquid?
Condensation/ rain.
Where does snow come from?
Clouds
How does water change from liquid to solid?
Freezing it
Who needs water?
Humans, plants, and animals.
What are clouds made of?
Water in the condensation state.
What is precipitation?
Rain or when water falls back down to earth.
How are snowflakes formed?
Water droplets become frozen and stick to eachother.
What do we call it when water changes from liquid to gas?
Evaporation.
How does water get from the ground into the oceans?
Rivers
What happens to a puddle in a freezing cold place?
It becomes ice.