Oceans
Fresh Water
Water Cycle
Clouds and Precipitation
100
It is the percentage of the Earth's surface covered by water.
What is 3/4 or 75%?
100
It is fresh water.
What is water with much less salt than ocean water? OR What is the water we use for drinking, cooking, and cleaning?
100
It is water in gas form.
What is water vapor?
100
It is the thing that forms when water vapor changes into tiny drops or ice crystals.
What is a cloud?
200
It is the word for all of the waters of Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
It is rain or melted snow that soaks into the ground.
What is groundwater?
200
It is when water vapor turns into liquid.
What is condensation?
200
It is a high-altitude cloud that is thin, whispy, and white.
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
It is the measure of how salty water is.
What is salinity?
300
It is the layer of rock or soil that holds the groundwater?
What is an aquifer?
300
It is when snow and ice turn to water vapor without become liquid first.
What is sublimation?
300
It is a low-altitude cloud that covers the whole sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
400
It is the way we get salt from ocean water.
What is evaporation?
400
It is the top level of groundwater in an aquifer?
What is the water table?
400
It is precipitation.
What is it called when water falls from the coulds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
400
It is a cloud on the ground.
What is fog?
500
It is the fraction of the earth's water that is not salty.
What is 3/100 or 3%?
500
It is the fraction of the earth's fresh water that is frozen into ice.
What is 7/10 or 70%?
500
It is the thing that affects the water cycle the most. Its energy causes most melting, evaporation, and sublimation.
What is the Sun? OR What is heat from the Sun?
500
It is rain that freezes before it hits the ground.
What is sleet?
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