Vocabulary
to heat a liquid until it bubbles and turns quickly into a gas?
What is to boil?
The water on Earth today is the ____ water that existed long ago.
What is the same water?
This process happens when the sun heats water and turns it into water vapor that rises into the air.
What is evaporation?
All the water on and around planet Earth.
What is hydrosphere?
A drought is...
What is when a place has less precipitation than usual for a long time?
the process of a liquid changing to a gas
What is evaporation?
The ____ cycle is how water moves around on Earth.
What is the water cycle?
This is when water vapor cools and changes into tiny liquid droplets that form clouds.
What is condensation?
A large area of water beneath the Earth's surface.
What is an aquifer?
The Earth is surrounded by...
What is air?
water when it is a gas, such as steam
What is water vapor?
In the water cycle, water gets _____ so some of the water we drink today may have been the same water the dinosaurs drank.
What is reused?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling from clouds to Earth is called this.
What is precipitation?
To pay close attention to something.
What is to observe?
Changes in the temperature, moisture or winds in the atmosphere can all result in...
What is less rain and snow in a place?
the process of a gas changing to a liquid
What is condensation?
What is groundwater?
This part of the water cycle happens when water gathers in oceans, lakes, rivers, or on the ground.
What is collection?
To guess what will happen based on things you know.
What is predict?
When there isn't enough water for the plants and animals in an area, this can happen.
What is they can get sick, stop growing or die?
when water falls from clouds in the sky; including rain, snow, and hail
What is precipitation?
A ___ is a pretend version of something that scientist use when the real thing is too big, too small, or too complicated to work with.
What is a model?
This process occurs when plants release water vapor into the air through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
The gases that surround a planet.
What is atmosphere?
We can reduce the impact of a drought by...
What is being more careful about how we use water. We can do things like replace grass lawns with plants that need less water and only use as much water as we need to bathe and wash things.