Water Cycle Wonders
This is the process by which liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This is the percentage of Earth's water that is saltwater.
What is 97%?
This is what we call a river and all the streams that flow into it.
What is a river system?
What is 97%?
This is what we call water that fills cracks and spaces in rock and soil underground.
What is groundwater?
This is the process that releases water vapor through plant leaves.
What is transpiration?
This is the percentage of Earth's water that is freshwater.
What is 3%?
This is what the land area that supplies water to a river system is called.
What is watershed?
This is the term for the total amount of dissolved salts in ocean water.
What is salinity?
What is a well?
This is the process that occurs when water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
This is where most of Earth's freshwater is found?
Where is glaciers and underground?
This is what we call the ridge that separates one watershed from another.
What is a divide?
This is what happens to the water temperature the deeper you do into the ocean.
What is it decreases?
This is the term for the gaseous form of water found in the atmosphere.
This is any form of water that falls from clouds to Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
This is the amount of freshwater that is found as liquid in lakes and rivers.
What is a tiny fraction, less than 1%?
This is the longest divide in North America.
What is the Great Divide?
This is what happens to the pressure the deeper you go into the ocean.
What is that in increases?
This is what causes streams to flow downhill and join together to form rivers?
What is gravity?
These are the two forces that power the water cycle.
What are the sun's energy and gravity?
These are the four main oceans of the world.
What is Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic?
This is the underground layer of rock that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
This is a landform that is found both on land and in the water.
What are mountains?
This is why water is called the "universal resource" for life on Earth?
What is because all living things depend on it to survive?