What is the word for a collection of millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals?
What is clouds.
100
Where is most of Earth's water found, and is it usable?
What is oceans/glaciers, and no, most is salt not fresh.
100
In this step, water turns into a gas or vapor.
What is evaporation.
100
What is evapotranspiration?
What is the movement of water through plants.
100
In the water cycle diagram, how many steps should you list? What are they (in order?)
What is 4:
groundwater/collection
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
200
__________ is liquid in the air in the form of a gas.
What is water vapor.
200
How much of the Earth's water is salt water?
What is 97%.
200
In this step of the water cycle, rain, snow, or hail falls to the Earth.
What is precipitation.
200
What is the movement of water through the air called?
What is advection?
200
If I'm looking at a chart of the water cycle and from A - B is evaporation, what would step C be, assuming I'm going in order?
What is condensation.
300
__________ is the continuous movement of water into the air and ground, onto and over land, and back.
What is the water cycle.
300
How much of the Earth's water is frozen in the ice caps?
What is 2%.
300
What step of the water cycle is where water droplets collect in the air?
What is condensation.
300
What is runoff? How does it affect the land?
What is water flowing across the land b/c the soil is already saturated.
300
Name all four types of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
400
Condensation that occurs outdoors due to warmer air striking a colder surface is known as ______________.
What is dew.
400
What three forms can water be in?
What is liquid, solid and gas.
400
Give me an example of condensation and explain what it actually is.
Answers will vary.
400
How long has the water we are drinking today been around?
What is millions of years!
400
On what kind of day is the water most quickly going to evaporate? Why?
What is hot and sunny, because it heats the air faster and changes to vapor quicker.
500
What is any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface called?
What is precipitation.
500
What is the major source of heat energy that is responsible for evaporating water?
What is the sun.
500
List three ways that water is stored.
What is groundwater, reservoirs, oceans, lakes, snow caps, etc.
500
Fill in the blank:
"whether on, above, or below the Earth's surface... in a _____________ _________, my work's never done, 'cuz I'm driven by ________ from the ______.
What is
1. continuous cycle
2. energy
3. sun
500
Name all four steps of the water cycle and tell me what happens in each.
What is collection, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation (with explanations of course!)