Vocabulary
The Ocean
Watery Water
Water Cycle
Water Percentages
100
A very thick sheet of ice covering a large area of land.
What is a glacier?
100
Most of the Earth's water contains this.
What is salt?
100
Plants soak up water through these.
What are roots?
100
Water particles change from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
What is the earth's ratio of earth's fresh and salt water.
What is 3% to 97%? That means there is around 32 times as much saltwater as there is fresh water!
200
What is the scientific word for rain, sleet, hail, or snow?
What is precipitation?
200
When ocean water and fresh water mix, what kind of water is created?
What is brackish water?
200
Water stored in cracks and spaces of underground rock.
What is groundwater?
200
The state of matter of water when it is very hot.
What is a gas?
200
The hydrosphere covers about _________ % of the earth's surface.
What is 70%?
300
Water in a gaseous form.
What is water vapor or steam?
300
Process that connects oceans to freshwater bodies (lakes and streams).
What is the water cycle?
300
Most of Earth's fresh water is made up of in this form.
What are glaciers and ice caps?
300
Water vapor particles change from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
These cover about 75% of earth's surface.
What are the oceans?
400
Tiny droplets of condensed water in the atmosphere make up these.
What are clouds?
400
Tides are caused by the pull of this between the Earth, moon, and sun..
What is gravity?
400
What part of the ocean makes it difficult to freeze or drink.
What is salt?
400
What are the 3 steps of the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
400
Frozen water makes up this percentage of earth's water.
What is about 1.75%?
500
All the water on earth's surface.
(hint - "water ball")
What is the hydrosphere?
500
The biggest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
What carries warm water to the poles.
What is currents?
500
This is a form of condensation that is usually present in the early morning hours when outside is cool.
What is dew?
500
Earth is covered with this amount of freshwater.
What is 3%?
