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It is tall, steep, rises above the land around it, and often has snow on top.
What is a mountain?
100
These are large bodies of water surrounded by land.
What are lakes?
100
This is why you cannot see water vapor until it mixes with dust.
What is it is invisible?
100
This is the direction that all water flows.
What is downhill?
100
Some people get water for their homes from these. They are very deep down in the ground.
What are wells?
200
These are areas of high ground that are lower than mountains.
What are hills?
200
These are large bodies of salt water that cover most of the Earth.
What are oceans?
200
Examples of this are rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation?
200
Water in a cup and rain are examples of this state of water.
What is a liquid?
200
This water is safe to drink. It is found in lakes and rivers.
What is freshwater?
300
They are low landforms found between mountains or hills.
What are valleys?
300
These are small bodies of shallow water surrounded on all sides by land.
What are ponds?
300
As water vapor mixes with dust, these form.
What are clouds?
300
This water moves underground in the spaces between particles of sand, soil, pebbles, and rocks.
What is groundwater?
300
This is the wearing away of the Earth's surface by wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
400
They are large, mostly flat land. Many different types of grasses grow on them.
What are plains?
400
These are small bodies of flowing water. After it rains, one may flow down the street.
What are streams?
400
It is water vapor in the air. You feel it on humid days.
What is humidity?
400
Ice is an example of this state of water.
What is a solid?
400
This is water that does not soak into the ground, but flows across the surface of the ground and goes downhill.
What is runoff?
500
They are land forms that have steep sides and flat tops.
What are plateaus?
500
These are large streams of water that flow downhill.
What are rivers?
500
This happens when the sun's heat turns liquid water into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
500
Humidity in the air is an example of this state of water.
What is a gas?
500
This is frozen water that is shaped like a sphere (a ball) and falls from the clouds sometimes during a thunderstorm.
What is hail?