The process of turning from a liquid into a gas due to heat.
What is evaporation?
Where 97% of the earth's water found.
What is the ocean?
This causes water to evaporate.
What is the sun's heat?
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land.
What is the water cycle?
Lake Okeechobee is in Florida. The map below shows where the lake is in the state. How would water most likely move from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Okeechobee?

A. by ocean water flowing up a river that joins with the lake.
B. by ocean flooding and water flowing overland into the lake.
C. by ocean water evaporating and entering the lake when it rains.
D. by water seeping through the ocean floor and welling up into the lake.
C. by ocean water evaporating and entering the lake when it rains
The process of changing back from a gas to a liquid due to cooling.
What is condensation?
How water normally leaves the ocean to join the rest of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
This causes water vapor to change into liquid water again (condensation).
What is cooling temperatures?
The name for the gaseous form of water.
What is water vapor?
A puddle evaporated from a sidewalk. What happened to the water that caused it to evaporate?
A. The water cooled down then evaporated
B. The water disappeared before evaporating
C. The water heated up then evaporated
D. The water soaked into the concrete sidewalk before evaporating
C. The water heated up then evaporated
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
The world's largest reservoir.
What is ocean?
Which of the following would most likely show how melting water moves in the model of a melting glacier?
A. Using colored water to represent the ocean
B. Using colored water in the ice cubes to represent the glaciers.
C. Using different colors of clay to represent the dry land and the bottom of the ocean.
B. Using colored water in the ice cubes to represent the glaciers.
Elf, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone, & Love Actually
What are Ms. Grueter's favorite Christmas movies?
Which process plays the greatest role in removing water from the ocean?
A. Condensation
B. Evaporation
C. Precipitation
D. Runoff
B. Evaporation
A man-made or natural storage place for water.
What is a reservoir?
The percentage of saline water on Earth.
What is about 97%?
How can chemicals and pesticides get into groundwater?
A. Rain
B. Evaporation
C. Transpiration
D. Water Vapor
A. Rain
Water that does not get absorbed into the ground, but instead flows along the surface into streams, rivers, and oceans.
What is runoff?
Where can Earth's water be found?
A. Above Earth in the air and clouds
B. On the surface of the Earth in rivers, lakes, and oceans
C. In living organisms on Earth
D. Inside the Earth in the top few miles of the ground
E. All of the above
E. All of the above
The process by which plants release water vapor and it is released to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
An area of land over which surface water and ground water flow to a collection place like a stream, river, or lake.
What is a watershed?
________ is the only substance on Earth that is found as solid, liquid and gas naturally.
What is water?
Where most of the fresh water on earth is.
What are glaciers and polar ice caps?
Small rivers, lakes, and streams that flow into larger rivers.
What are tributaries?