Stages of the Water Cycle
This process turns water from lakes and oceans into vapor.
What is evaporation?
The largest reservoir of water on Earth.
What is the ocean?
The process of water turning into vapor.
What is evaporation?
A place where water collects after heavy rain.
What is a pond or lake?
The percentage of Earth’s water that is fresh.
What is about 2.5%?
Water vapor cools and turns back into liquid, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
Freshwater stored underground in soil and rock.
What is groundwater?
Water vapor cooling and forming clouds.
What is condensation?
The process that supplies drinking water to cities.
What is water treatment?
The only planet in our solar system with liquid water on its surface.
What is Earth?
Water soaking into the ground from the surface.
What is infiltration?
Water stored in glaciers and ice caps.
What is ice or glaciers?
Water soaking into the ground.
What is infiltration?
When snow melts and water flows into rivers and lakes.
What is snowmelt runoff
The amount of water that humans are recommended to drink daily (in liters).
What is about 2 liters?
The process where water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Water in streams and rivers.
What is surface water?
Water falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
The role of clouds in the water cycle.
What is cloud formation?
Water covers approximately what percentage of Earth's surface?
What is 70%?
The movement of water over the land surface toward bodies of water.
What is runoff?
The process of water moving in the atmosphere and across Earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
The movement of water over the land.
What is runoff?
An example of water conservation in daily life.
What is turning off taps when not in use?
The process of turning saltwater into drinkable freshwater.
What is desalination?