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How can the Oceans be Described?
Where is Fresh Water Found?
What are Some California Water Sources?
What is the Water Cycle?
How do Clouds Form?
100
Where most of Earth's water is found
What is the oceans?
100
True or False: The amount of fresh water is limited.
What is true?
100
True or False: Water can't be recycled
What is false?
100
The repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms
What is the water cycle?
100
This causes most clouds to form
What is rising air?
200
The level of the ocean's surface
What is sea level?
200
Layer of rock and soil that underground water flows through
What is an aquifer?
200
Most fresh water starts off as this
What is rain or snow?
200
Provides energy for the water cycle
What is the sun?
200
This type of precipitation occurs when the temperature between the cloud and the ground is warmer than 0°C
What is rain?
300
A measure of the amount of salt in water
What is salinity?
300
The top level of groundwater in an aquifer
What is the water table?
300
This is one way you can conserve water
What is taking shorter showers, not letting the water run when brushing your teeth, fixing leaky faucets and toilets, or use less drinking water?
300
Changing of liquid water to water vapor
What is evaporation?
300
These are frozen raindrops
What is sleet?
400
Oceans get their salt from these
What is the rivers?
400
This is where water is sent to be cleaned and treated before it is used
What is a Water Treatment Plant?
400
Which of these is a way to recycle water? A. Fix leaky faucets B. Use less water for drinking C. Use wastewater to water crops D. Take shorter showers
What is "C. Use wastewater to water crops"?
400
When water droplets grow large enough to fall from clouds as rain, hail, sleet, or snow
What is precipitation?
400
This cloud can extend from low to high in the atmosphere
What is thunderhead?
500
What kind of water is heavier than all the others: A. Low salinity water B. Cold, salty water C. Warm, salty water
What is "B. Cold, salty water"?
500
This can be extended by recycling or by using less water whenever possible
What is the water supply?
500
This part of California gets drinking water by piping it through system of aqueducts
What is the southern coast?
500
When air cools and some of the water vapor turns into a liquid, such as water droplets in clouds or fog
What is condensation?
500
This is caused when wind blows raindrops back up into the freezing air at the top of the cloud, they freeze, become heavy, and fall to the ground
What is hail?