Water on Earth
Name one form of precipitation
rain, snow, sleet, hail
Which side of the mountain is will experience desert conditions - the windward or leeward side?
leeward
What are the 3 phases of water?
Solid, liquid, and gas
What vocabulary word describes changing from a gas to a liquid?
Condensation or condense
Which sphere is composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gasses?
The Atmosphere!
when water changes from a liquid to a gas
evaporation
As we move higher up in the atmosphere, do temperatures remain the same, get colder, or warmer?
colder - think of the icecaps on mountains!
Solid
A supply of something that is useful.
a resource
Which two spheres are interacting?
Flooding moves soil and rocks to new places
Flooding is hydrosphere and the soil and rocks are the geosphere
Name a place where where we can find surface freshwater.
lakes
rivers
wetlands
Which side of the mountain experiences the rain shadow? Windward or leeward?
The leeward is the dry side and it experiences the rain shadow
Which phase of water has the most space between water molecules?
A system
Which two of the earth's spheres are interacting? Animals live at the bottom of the ocean.
biosphere (life) and hydrosphere (water)
True or False: all water is recycled.
True! Water moves through the water cycle and we could be bathing in a T-Rex's spit!
In the rain shadow effect, what gets trapped at the top of the mountain on the windward side?
I will accept water vapor, clouds, condensation, precipitation.
An iceberg is an example of what phase of water?
solid!
Water in the form of an invisible gas.
water vapor
Which two spheres are interacting?
A volcano erupts, adding carbon dioxide into the air.
the volcano is geosphere and the carbon dioxide and air are atmosphere.
Where is most of the freshwater on Earth?
locked up in glaciers!
The windward and leeward sides of the mountain are determined by....
which direction the wind is blowing
In which phase of water are molecules close together, yet still able to move around?
liquid
A person who uses science knowledge to design something useful.
Engineer
Which three spheres are interacting?
A plant makes oxygen (through a process called photosynthesis) and stretches its roots into the soil and rocks beneath it.
The plant is biosphere.
The oxygen that the plant produces is the atmosphere.
The soil and rocks are the geosphere.