Water Cycle
Water Cycle #2
Lakes + Ponds
Rivers
Rivers #2
100
This provides energy for water to evaporate from oceans and lakes.
What is the sun?
100
TRUE or FALSE: The amount of water on Earth has not changed for millions of years.
What is TRUE!
100
Sunlight usually reaches the bottom in this body of water.
What is a pond?
100
The land immediately along a river's edge is called this.
What is the riverbank?
100
The flat land beside rivers are in danger of flooding if a river overflows.
What are floodplains?
200
This part of the water cycle returns water to the Earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
This is the term to describe water that becomes trapped within the Earth?
What is groundwater?
200

Since sunlight doesn't reach the bottom, plants can't grow in this aquatic biome

What is a lake?

200
The water in a river has this specific name.
What is the flow?
200

True or False: Water in a river moves in many directions. 

What is FALSE? The water in a river only moves in one direction. 

300
During this step of the water cycle, clouds are formed.
What is condensation?
300
Water that returns to Earth as precipitation becomes this when it runs off the Earth into bodies of water.
What is runoff?
300

The bottom of a lake is described as this.

What is rocky and sandy?

300
The pathway carved by a river is called this
What is the channel?
300
These smaller streams lead into a river.
What are tributaries?
400
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants, this occurs.
What is transpiration?
400
TRUE or FALSE: Water can only evaporate from the ocean.
What is FALSE!
400
The water in lakes and ponds can be described by these TWO terms (100 points for each).
What is still AND fresh?
400
When a river reaches its end, or ______, the water empties into a lake or ocean.
What is the mouth?
400
These two kinds of water mix in an estuary.
What are freshwater and salt water?
500
As water gathers in large bodies like oceans and lakes, this part of the water cycle occurs.
What is accumulation?
500
TRUE or FALSE: Clouds consist of ONLY water.
What is FALSE! Clouds also consist of DUST!
500
We can say that there is more of this gas near a pond because of the plants that live in and near it.
What is oxygen?
500
As a river empties into a larger body of water, mud, sand, and rocks build these triangular structures.
What are deltas?
500

True or False: During a rainy season, the flow of a river increases.

What is TRUE?

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