Vocabulary
Name that Critter
Groundwater
Water everywhere
The Water Cycle
100
The continuous cycling of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
100
What is a cormorant?
AKA water turkey
100
a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
What is an aquifer?
100
The reason Earth's water has lasted millions of years.
What is the water cycle?
100
Liquid that falls from the atmosphere to Earth
What is precipitation?
200
The state of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
200
What is a manatee?
AKA sea cow
200
These can be drilled into the aquifer and water can be pumped out.
What is a well?
200
Change in water from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
200
Name the five types of precipitation
Rain, Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain, Hailstones
300
the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
What is an anhinga?
AKA snake bird
300
This occurs when land collapses into spaces where underground rock has been dissolved by groundwater.
What is a sinkhole?
300
How water enters the Earth's atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
300
Water that does not sink into the soil or fall into the ocean, rivers and lakes.
What is runoff?
400
a change from the liquid to the gaseous state.
What is evaporation?
400
What is an American Alligator?
400
This happens when fertilizer, pesticides, or septic tank leakage percolates down to the water table.
What is groundwater contamination?
400
These are the 5 types of precipitation.
What are rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, and hail?
400
What are the three factors that can affect climate of an area?
Latitude, elevation and nearness to large bodies of water.
500
The boundary where two different air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
What is a gopher tortoise?
This is a "threatened" species - the animals and their burrows are protected under state law.
500
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, more than 92% of our drinking water in Florida comes from this source.
What is the aquifer?
500
a place where fresh and salt water mix, such as a bay, salt marsh, or where a river enters an ocean
What is an estuary?
500
The weather forecast states that an area of high pressure is moving into your area. Should you take your umbrella today or leave it at home? Explain your answer.
Leave your umbrella at home because high pressure is associated with clear skies.