water cycle vocab
What is precipitation?
What is any form of water that falls from a cloud.
How long can a water droplet stay in the ocean?
How is 3000 years.
What is the first step of the water cycle?
What is Evaporation.
What is water states of matter during condensation?
What is liquid?
What role does the sun play in precipitation?
Driving precipitation by heating the earth's surface.
What is evaporation?
What is the process where liquid turns to gas due to addition of thermal energy.
How long does the water cycle take to recycle water?
What is about 9 days.
What is the second step of the water cycle?
What is Condensation.
What is waters state mostly in the water cycle?
What is liquid.
What role does the sun play in transpiration?
Providing the energy to evaporate water from plant leaves.
What is transpiration?
What is the process where the liquid in a leaf turns to gas due to the addition of thermal energy.
How long has the water cycle been on earth?
How is 3.2 billion years ago.
What is the third step of the water cycle?
What is precipitation.
What is waters state of matter during transpiration?
What role does the sun play in condensation?
Powering evaporation,turning liquid water into vapor that rises,cools, and then condenses into clouds.
what is groundwater?
What is water found beneath the Earth's surface in soil pores and rock fractures.
What happens to the water cycle in the desert?
What is extreme dryness,rapid evaporation and intense infrequent precipitation.
What is the fourth step of the water cycle?
What is collection.
What is a water form that is tightly packed?
What is ice.
What role does the sun play in groundwater?
Powering the water cycle through evaporation,which moves water into the atmosphere, and then through precipitation, which replenishes groundwater.
what is surface runoff in Italian?
What is deflusso superficiale.
How much water does the water cycle recycle?
What is 577,00 cubic kilometers of water.
what is the fifth step of the water cycle.?
What is Subsurface water flow.
What is liquid in Irish?
what is leacht.
What does the sun play in evaporation?
Providing the energy that causes the liquid water to transform into water vapor.