Water Cycle (a)
Name four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow
A visible mass of tiny liquid water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud
When water is in a gas state.
What is water vapor
The process where water is released by plants?
What is transpiration
When ice melts and turns into liquid water, it is ________ energy.
What is absorbing
Three forms of water
What is a liquid, a solid, and a gas
When water is changed from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation
What are the three phases of the water cycle that involve a change in state of matter?
What are crystallization, condensation, and evaporation
True/false: Water is lost in the water cycle into space.
What is false
The water cycle is a closed system
The process of water seeping into the ground
What is infiltration
The four processes that absorb energy from the environment to happen
What are evaporation, sublimation, transpiration, and melting
When a liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation
The feature on Earth that holds most of Earth's water
What are oceans
Clouds form when water vapor ________________ around tiny particles in the air.
What is condenses
3 processes of the water cycle that release energy out into the environment
What are condensation, deposition (desublimation), and crystallization (freezing)
When water changes from a liquid to a solid.
What is crystallization (to freeze)
True or False. 50% of the Earth's water is fresh water.
What is FALSE
Only 3% is freshwater.
The continuous movement of water on, above, or below Earth's surface
What is the water cycle
The process of water being carried from one surface to another
What is runoff
Moves water downhill (runoff) and into the soil (infiltration) and into deep underground water storage (percolation)
What is gravity
When water changes from a solid to a liquid
What is to melt
The process where ice or snow turns directly into water vapor without first melting into liquid water
What is sublimation
The energy source that drives the water cycle and causes evaporation by heating the Earth's surface.
What is the Sun
This is water that moves under the Earth's surface
What is groundwater
The parts of the water cycle that do not require energy to happen (only gravity)
What are runoff, infiltration/percolation, and precipitation