Vocabulary
Water World
True/False
Water Cycle
Miscellaneous
100
A measure of how hot or cold a substance is
Temperature
100
Water in a gas form
Steam or water vapor
100
The water on Earth today is the same water that was here millions of years ago.
True
100
Runoff
100
What is a surface source of drinking water ?
Lakes,rivers, ground water sources.
200
Liquid, especially water or rainwater, that flows off or drains away, as in the storm sewer could not hold all the runoff from the recent rains.
Runoff
200
Give three examples of precipitation.
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
200
We measure how hot or cold it is using an instrument or device called a temperature
False
200
Evaporation
200
Name 2 methods of water conservation.
Check for leaks, turning off the water while brushing your teeth, monitoring water meters
300
Ice or snow goes from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid
Sublimation
300
The three states of matter that water can exist in.
Solid, liquid and gas
300
A liquid will change to a solid when heat is added.
False
300
Condensation.
300
What percentage of the Earth’s surface is water?
80%
400
The process by which precipitation or water soaks into subsurface soils and moves into rocks through cracks and pore spaces.
Infiltration
400
This determines the type of precipitation that falls.
Temperature of the air through which it falls.
400
Water is constantly moving and changing from one form (liquid, gas, solid) to another.
True
400
What is the process of Precipitation?
Is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
400
Water is wasted most in
Toilets, bathtubs, faucets
500
Is a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater.
Aquifer
500
Will water carry anything with it when it evaporates? Why?
No, because only the water evaporates leaving behind salt, coloring etc.
500
Water that comes from a cloud and falls as rain, snow, sleet or hail is called run-off.
False
500
Create a scene of the water cycle with your group and if the stages of your scene matches up with the stages of the water cycle 1,200 points will be added.
1) Evaporation
3) Condensation
4) Precipitation
5) Infiltration
6) Runoff
500
State the steps of the water cycle.
Condensation, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration