When the SUN BEATS DOWN and MELTS the ICE and SNOW.
What is meltwater?
100
The ORIGIN OF SOMETHING is the _____________.
What is the source?
100
Water is constantly moving in the _____ ______ and in that the WATER CHANGES FROM A LIQUID TO A GAS is called the _____________.
What is the water cycle and evaporation?
200
This is the UPPERMOST LAYER of the LAND, which may be DUG, PLOWED, and which PLANTS GROW.
What is soil?
200
The WEARING AWAY AND MOVING PARTICLES of soil and rock from one place to another is called ______.
What is erosion?
200
This is the process when rocks BREAK DOWN into various earth materials.
What is weathering?
200
WATER that STAYS FROZEN as snow or rivers of ice are _____.
What are glaciers?
200
These are LONG PERIODS WITHOUT RAIN.
What are droughts?
300
The TINY DROPLETS of LIQUID that appear in the SKY make ______. When these get too heavy they drop precipitation which can cause _________, LAKES AND STREAMS.
What are clouds and surface water?
300
______ _________ is weathered rock fragments.
What is inorganic matter?
300
______ happens when a THIN LAYER of WATER FANS OUT over the land.
What is sheetwash?
300
LIVING and DEAD PLANT and ANIMAL material.
What is organic matter?
300
______ are rivulets that converge and deepen.
What are gullies?
400
__________ are STREAMS that originate in TINY CHANNELS can be seen in our _______, a WATERPROOF BOX that has a water source and contains SAND,GRAVEL, AND OTHER SOIL COMPONENTS.
What are rivulets and stream table.
400
The DEPOSITING PARTICLES of ROCK and SOIL.
What is sedimentation?
400
Characteristics.
What are properties?
400
A _________ is a scientists who STUDIES LANDFORMS.
What is a geologist?
400
Water that FLOWS slowly UNDER THE GROUND in rock or soil and finds its way to the EARTH'S SURFACE.
What are springs?
500
Areas of FLAT LAND that have been leveled either by erosion or deposition are called _______, and STEEPLY SLOPED AND UPLIFTED AREAS OF ROCK are called_____________.
What is plains and mountains?
500
_________ are the natural features of land's surface. Landforms that have high but level areas, often next to mountains, and have horizontal layers of rock are called _____.
What are landforms and plateaus?
500
________ is RAIN,SNOW,SLEET, and HAIL that occurs in the airborne part of the water cycle. When it falls from the clouds 0.62% SOAKS INTO THE EARTH called _____.
What is precipitation and ground water?
500
When water molecules HEAT UP and ESCAPE into the air they become a gas called _____ _____. When it rises in the atmosphere and cools it changes FROM A GAS BACK TO A LIQUID and is called _______.
What is water vapor and condensation?
500
A ___________ is a scientist who studies the PROPERTIES AND MOVEMENT OF WATER, so he/she would surely know that 2.8 % of water on earth is called __________.