Hydrosphere & Water Distribution
A large area of salt water that covers the Earth.
What is an ocean?
The process of a liquid changing to a gas.
What is evaporation?
The fresh water beneath Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
The air that surrounds a planet.
What is the atmosphere?
An overflow of water.
What is a flood?
A large area of water with land all around it.
What is a lake?
When one substance mixes with another and it looks like it disappears, such as when sugar mixes into tea.
What is dissolve?
A natural underground source of fresh water.
What is an aquifer?
The process of a gas changing to a liquid.
What is condensation?
A type of windstorm that starts as a smaller storm over the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
Water that is not salty, such as the water in most lakes and rivers.
What is fresh water?
Something you can observe about an object or material.
What is property?
True or False: There is about the same amount of fresh surface water as there is fresh groundwater.
What is false?
Water falling from clouds in the sky; including rain, snow, and hail.
What is precipitation?
A barrier built to prevent an overflow of water from a river.
What is a levee?
A large area of frozen water found on the surface of the Earth.
What is an ice cap?
A combination of two or more things.
What is a mixture?
True or False: The majority of the liquid freshwater on Earth is water that people have to dig to find.
What is true?
How hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
A barrier built to prevent an overflow of water from a large body of water, like the ocean.
What is a seawall?
All the water (solid, liquid, gas) on and around planet Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
A special kind of mixture where you cannot tell the different parts from each other.
What is a solution?
True or False: Rivers and lakes might look big, but they only hold a few percent of the total freshwater on Earth.
What is true?
Water when it is a gas, such as steam.
What is water vapor?
A habitat where the land is covered by shallow water, such as a swamp.
What is a wetland?