Water cycle vocabulary
What Is acid?
It is when Ph levels are less than 7
What is the hydrosphere?
All the water on earth
The process where water vapour in the air cools and transforms into liquid water droplets.
What is the first stage specifically of the cycle?
The first stage is the evaporation stage.
What is the 6th stage of the water cycle?
The 6th stage of the water cycle is run-off
What is aquifier?
A body of rock that stores ground water.
What is run-off?
when the excess water from rain runs down slopes into rivers and lakes.
What is hydropower?
Electricity generated from the energy of moving water.
What is the official second stage of the cycle?
The second stage is condensation.
Which stage turns the solid into a gas?
Sublimation.
What is the base?
The decrease of hydrogen ion is a solution.
It is the process of a solid turning into a gas.
What is infiltration?
It´s the process by which the water infiltrates the soil from the ground surface.
What is the third stage of the cycle?
The third stage is precipitation.
What does transpiration officially do?
It's the evaporation of the water in the plants leaves.
What is Evaporation?
When water turns into a gaseous water vaper, mainly the first phase of the cycle.
What is permeable?
Allowing penetrable, porous, allowing liquid or gas to pass through.
What is the Ph levels?
It´s the measure of alkalinity or acidity.
What is the 4th stage of the water cycle?
The fourth stage is infiltration.
What does salinity do?
Impacting ocean circulation.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The volume of open spaces in rocks or soil.
What is alkaline?
It´s a basic substance, chemically, a substance that absorbs hydrogen ions: pH greater than 7
What is the 5th stage of the cycle?
The fifth stage is percolation.
It collects all the rain water.