Water Cycle
Water on the Ground
Erosion and Deposition
How We Use Water
Water Conservation
100
The path water takes, and the changes it goes through, as it cycles through the environment.
What is the water cycle?
100
Water flowing over the ground.
What is surface water?
100
The process in which water or wind can break down rock.
What is erosion?
100
A human-made structure to store water.
What is a dam?
100
These are household items that have been redesigned to help save water.
What are toilets and showerheads?
200
The change of water from a liquid state into a gas state due to an increase in temperature.
What is evaporation?
200
Surface water that collects in rivers and streams.
What is runoff?
200
Sand, dirt, and rock that is worn down by erosion.
What is sediment?
200
A series of pipes used to water crops and other plants.
What is an irrigation system?
200
This is how we may get our fresh water in the future.
What is by digging deeper wells and building factories that change salt water to fresh water?
300
Water that falls from clouds in the form of rain, snow sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
300
Water that soaks into the ground.
What is groundwater?
300
The process in which sediment is moved and left in another location.
What is deposition?
300
These are some ways we use water.
What are farming, cooking, cleaning, electricity, and industry?
300
Examples of how to conserve water.
What are turning off the water when you aren't using it, don't run the water while you are brushing your teeth, take shorter showers, fix leaks, wash dishes and clothes only when there is a full load, store rainwater for plants, water the lawn in the evening, or put lawn sprinklers on times?
400
The process by which water changes from gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
These are drilled into the ground in order to get drinking water.
What is wells?
400
These are landforms that can be caused by erosion.
What are valleys and canyons?
400
The location of most of the frest water on Earth.
What are polar ice and mountain glaciers?
400
This allows for less evaporation due to less heat and light making plants more likely to absorb water.
What is watering plants at night?
500
Water that is a gas.
What is water vapor?
500
The underground storage location of water.
What is an aquifer?
500
These are two landforms created by the deposit of sediment.
What are sandbars and deltas?
500
The percentage of fresh water that is easy to get and use.
What is 1 percent?
500
Home irrigation systems on timers do this.
What is give the right amount of water directly to each plant?
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