This gives energy to the water cycle and powers the entire process.
What is the sun?
100
The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor
What is evaporation?
100
In the "Simon-says" game we played in class, when I say ________________ you put your hands perpendicular to your body (out in front of you).
What is run-off?
100
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
What is ground water?
100
An area of land that catches precipitation and drains into either a river, marsh, ground or stream?
What is a watershed?
200
Water molecules in the atmosphere condense around dirt particles to form a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
Larger surface area, higher temperature, or heating source
What are things that increase the rate of evaporation?
200
In "Simon-says" game we played in class, teacher says "__________________" you put your hands down low to the side of your body.
What is infiltration?
200
the upper limit of the saturated zone that fills pores between rocks. When you drill a well, you will be pulling the water from below here
What is the water table?
200
When hundreds of smaller watersheds gathering together in one locations.
What is a drain basin?
300
Water that is not needed by plants exits the plants through pores in the leaves to re-enter the atmosphere via evaporation.
What is transpiration?
300
Any form of water that escapes from clouds and reaches Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
300
When water comes down from the sky as rain and flows to an area close to the mountains with bare soil. My water is more likely to _______________.
What is run-off?
300
large areas of groundwater contained within areas of rock. It is below the water table and wells would reach this depth.
What is an aquifer?
300
Watersheds bring water to plants, animals, are used for drinking, and recreation such as white water rafting
What is why are watershed important?
400
What are the 4 major parts of the water cycle?
What are 1) condensation 2) evaporation 3) precipitation 4)run-off
400
Warm air heats up from the sun, meets cold air coming from the ground and condenses around particles in the air.
What is how a cloud is formed?
400
It has been raining steadily and slowly the last 2 hours over a local farmland. The water is more likely to ______________.
What is infiltrate or infiltrate the soil.
400
-Pumping at a well
-a spring or artesian well
-drain into a river, pond lake or stream
-plant roots, especially trees that reach down and remove water by transpiration
What are ways that ground water can be discharged?
400
1) manure
2) fertilizers
3) pesticides
What are three ways that a watershed can be polluted?
500
1. Water in clouds falls to Earth in rain, hail, or snow.
2. Clouds hold in energy form Earth's surface
3. Clouds reflect the sunlight that reaches Earth from the sun.
What is, how are clouds important to weather and climate?
500
Clouds pass over a cold area (glacier) the cold air from the surface forms ice crystals and then falls to the Earth when the weight of the water molecules is too heavy to stay suspended in the cloud.
What is how snow/freezing rain is formed?
500
These man-made factors increase the likelihood that run-off will occur.
What is impermeable surfaces, paved parking lot or cutting down trees?
500
-precipitation may cause water to infiltrate directly
- water can enter from a rive, pond lake or stream
- aquifers can be recharged (polluted) by adding pollutants to a well