Water Cycle Vocab
The Water Table
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Miscellaneous
100
It falls from the clouds as: rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
100
Causing soil to become saturated with water
What is saturated zone?
100
Snow or rain that can have a small amount of sulfuric or nitric acid
What is acid precipitation
100
The movement of water that changes state anywhere on the Earth.
What is the water cycle?
100
The earth has 2.2% of this
What is solid fresh water
200
Heat from the sun causes water to become clouds
What is evaporation?
200
An impervious layer of clay, silt or rock that does not let water though
What is aquitard?
200
The from of clumps from particals suspended in a fluid
What is flocculation?
200
Underground place of rock or soil that contains water.
What is aquifers?
200
The Earth has 0.001% of this
What is gaseous fresh water
300
Low-lying soft wet ground with water only part of the year and are tree less
What are marshes?
300
it causes the water to spead out moistening the ground
What is the affect of attraction of water to soil?
300
The process of clorine added to water to kill microorganisms
What is chlorination?
300
Watering crops by diverting the water from rivers, lakes, etc to the crops.
What is irrigation?
300
The Earth has 0.6% of this
What is liquid fresh water
400
Water that has soaked into the Earth and moves back to lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is Ground Water?
400
A large amount of underground water in soil or rock that is an exellent source of water
What is aquifers?
400
A flat area next to rivers that often flood
What is flood plans?
400
Volcanic islands with washed away tops that lies below the surface of the ocean.
What are guyots?
400
The earth has 97.2% of this
What is salt water
500
They lose most of there moisture when they blow over this
What are clouds blowing over mountians?
500
This process causes water to fall to the ground
What is gravity and precolation
500
Areas where fresh and salt waters mix causing a blackish patcial salt water.
What is estuaries?
500
The upward movement of water caused by the attraction of water to soil.
What is capillary action?
500
__% of the Earth is made of ____
What is 70% water
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