Spheres
The Water Cycle
Locations of Water
States of Matter
100

The Ocean is an example of this sphere.

What is Hydrosphere?

100

When water heats up and goes into the air.

What is evaporation?

100

When water flows in a narrow channel or wide trough on top of the Earth.

What is a stream or river?

100

Water vapor is in this state of matter.

What  is a gas?

200

Animals, plants, fungi (such as mushrooms), protists, and bacteria make up this sphere.

What is Biosphere?

200

When water droplets fall to the Earth.

What is precipitation?

200

When water is solid and accumulates on top of mountains or northern parts of the world.

What are glaciers?

200

The phase change that occurs during evaporation.

What is from a liquid to a gas?

300

Gases constitute the majority of this sphere.

What is Atmosphere?

300

When water vapor cools and forms water droplets in a cloud.

What is condensation?

300

When water stays on top of the ground and flows into a body of water.

What is runoff?

300

Glaciers are an example of this state of matter.

What is a solid?

400

The geosphere is made up of these.

What are rocks, minerals, mountains, volcanoes and other landforms, and the Earth's interior?

400

When water goes deep into the ground.

What is infiltration?

400

When water is under the surface of the Earth.

What is groundwater?

400

The two states of matter water becomes in the atmosphere.

What are gas and liquid.

500

When ocean water crashes onto the beach sand.

What  is the interaction between hydrosphere and geosphere?

500

When plants release water into the air.

What is transpiration?

500

The location where most of Earth's water resides.

What is in the oceans?

500

Water is liquid in these locations on Earth.

What are streams, rivers, lakes, ocean, groundwater, clouds?
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