Vocabulary
General Knowledge
Water Cycle
Runoff and Groundwater
Totally Random
100
When the sun heats up liquid water, this process occurs.
What is evaporation?
100
When water vapor changes into water droplets.
What is condensation?
100
Any moisture that falls to the ground from clouds is called _____________?
What is precipitation?
100
Water flowing on Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
100

These are the 3 states of water.

What are water vapor, liquid water, and ice?

200
Evaporation turns liquid water into _________.
What is water vapor?
200
During condensation water is changed from a gas to a ________.
What is a liquid?
200
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants, it is called:

What is transpiration?

200
Water that moves under Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
200
_________ is one of the most important needs of animals, plants, and human life.
What is water?
300

The measure of how hot or cold a substance is:

What is temperature?

300

This is the percentage of freshwater on Earth.

What are 2.5-3%?

300

True or False: The water that we have on Earth is the same water that was here when dinosaurs were alive.

What is true?

300

These types of rocks and soil store groundwater.

What is porous?

300
Most of the water that is evaporated on Earth comes from ________.
What are oceans?
400

When water evaporates, it becomes an invisible gas in the ____________.

What is the atmosphere?

400

This occurs when Earth's atmosphere traps warm air that is heated by the sun:

What is the greenhouse effect?

400

Clouds are made of:

What is water droplets or ice crystals?

400

This is where most groundwater is stored.

What is an aquifer?

400

These are the two main factors that drive the water cycle.

What is thermal energy from the sun and gravity?

500

Give three examples of precipitation.

What are rain, sleet, snow, hail, and graupel?

500

Earth is a hydrosphere because it has water in these three areas in relationship to Earth's surface.

What are above, on, and under the surface?

500

When pieces of ice form in the clouds from rain or snow, they fall as ________?

What is hail?

500

This is how groundwater goes from the surface during runoff and into the ground.

What is infiltration?

500

Name the four spheres of Earth's systems and what they mean.

What are the atmosphere (air), biosphere (life), geosphere (ground), and hydrosphere (water).

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