Changes of State
What phase change occurs when liquid changes to gas?
What is evaporation?
Yesterday the kids were splashing in rain puddles. Today there are no more puddles. What happened to the water?
What is evaporation?
Water found in the spaces between rock particles under the Earth's surface and can be quite large reservoirs of water.
What is groundwater (or aquifer)?
The percent of Earth's water that is fresh water.
What is 3%?
Some oceans have a higher salt content than other oceans. They are said to have a higher_________?
What is salinity?
Which phase change occurs when a gas changes to liquid?
What is condensation?
I brought a plastic bottle of ice water into class the other day. By the end of class there was water on the table all around my water bottle. Why?
What is condensation of water molecules on the outer edge of the glass bottle that dripped onto the table?
Water above the Earth's surface, such as lakes rivers, ponds, and streams.
What is surface water?
The top of the saturated zone in the aquifer.
What is water table?
What causes winds?
What is difference in air pressure?
What phase change occurs when any form of water falls from the sky onto Earth's surface?
What is precipitation?
I put a baggie around a few leaves of my plant, and water droplets started to form on the inside of the baggie. What process do you think caused this to happen?
What is transpiration?
Precipitation that runs down a hillside is known as?
What is runoff?
Winds that blow from West to East are called______?
What are Westerlies?
What phase change occurs when a solid goes directly into a gas state, skipping the liquid state?
What is sublimation?
A student placed a small chunk of dry ice on the table and left the room for a short time. When he came back the dry ice was gone, but there was no puddle of water left behind. What process occurred?
What is sublimation?
Surface water flows from streams to larger streams, then into rivers, and eventually into this place.
What is the ocean?
Name 2 places where liquid freshwater can be found.
What is lakes, streams, ponds, groundwater, rivers, aquifers, wells etc.
What type of rock forms from magma or lava?
What is igneous rock?
What is the process that occurs when plants release water from their leaves into the atmophere?
What is transpiration?
The other day in class the kids started screaming and running to the window because they saw snowflakes in Georgia!! What process was occurring?
What is precipitation?
The process where water seeps into the ground.
What is infiltration?
Causes deep ocean currents?
What is differences in density?