The Water Cycle
Texas Water
Water Facts
Groundwater
Conservation
100

In this process, water travels in a sequence from the air to the earth, and then returns to the atmosphere.

What is the water cycle?

100

This river serves as the border between Texas and Mexico.

What is the Rio Grande River?

100

Water does this at 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

What is freeze?

100

This underground formation holds water in spaces between sand, gravel and rock.

What is an aquifer?

100
By doing this, you can conserve water using an automatic dish washer?

What is washing with a full load?

200

The source of energy for the water cycle.

What is the sun?

200

This is the only natural lake in Texas.

What is Caddo Lake?

200

Water boils at this temperature.

What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or what is 100 degrees Celsius? 
200

The movement of water down into the surface of the earth.

What is infiltration?

200

Most of the water used indoors occurs in this part of the house.

What is the bathroom?

300
In this process, water as a liquid becomes a gas.

What is evaporation?

300

This river runs through Texas' capitol city.

What is the Colorado River?

300

The chemical symbol for water.

What is H2O?

300

In this process, precipitation makes it way back into underground aquifers.

What is recharge?

300

This term refers to the wise and responsible use of water.

What is conservation?

400

In this process, water vapor becomes a liquid.

What is condensation?

400
Over 4 million of these animals are responsible for much of the bacteria and fecal coliform in Texas rivers and streams.

What are wild pigs?

400
This element is commonly added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay.

What is fluoride?

400

When water is pumped out of an aquifer faster than it is replaced, this happens.

What is aquifer depletion, or what is depletion?

400

On average, doing this uses 26 percent of all the water in the house.

What is flushing a toilet?

500

Wearing down or washing away of soil by water, wind or ice.

What is erosion?

500

This body of water is located just offshore of Galveston?

What is the Gulf of Mexico?

500
One gallon of water weights approximately how many pounds?

What is 8? More precisely water weights 8.25 pounds.

500

This forms around a water well as water is being pumped out from an aquifer.

What is a cone of depletion?

500

This term is used to describe an area of land that is frequently saturated with water, and provides habitat to many plants and wildlife.

What is a wetland?