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What is the Water Cycle
the continuous process by wich water moves from earths surface to the atmosphere and back again
The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorbs enough energy to change into a gas
what happens during the process of condensation?
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water vapor rises into the colder air, some water vapor cools and condenses into liquid or solid water.
What is runoff?
A small amount of water that runs off of surfaces into streams and lakes
What is a watershed
the land area that supply's water to a river system
The water cycle is driven by
HAVE TO HAVE BOTH
Energy from the sun and gravity
elements of the geosphere and biosphere can add what to the atmosphere
water vapors
What is precipitation
water that forms in clouds and fall to earth as rain snow hail or sleet.
Large salt water bodies include
Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Arctic Ocean
what is a divide
how watersheds stay separated from each other usually by a ridge of land.
Where does the water cycle move through?
The geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere
what is transpiration?
plants give water vapor off
Most of the water in the hydrosphere is what
salt water
Small bodies of salt water are what
inland and landlocked
How do ponds and lakes form
when water collects in hollows and low-lying areas of land
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Where is Knowledge bowl on Friday?
Manzanola
What is condensation
the process by witch water vapor becomes liquid water
what percentage of the hydrosphere is fresh water
3%
What is surface water
all the water found on the surface of the earth.
What is an aquifer
layers of rock that hold water
This helps regulate our planets temperature by absorbing heat
Water
What is the process of precipitation?
water vapor condenses the water droplets and ice crystals grow largest. eventually they become so heavy that gravity causes them to fall back to earth.
Where is most of the fresh water?
frozen in glacial ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
What are examples of surface water
rivers lakes ponds and oeans
What are the features of the ocean floor?
seamount, trench, continental slope, continental shelf, abyssal plain, mid ocean ridges