Water Cycle 1
The water cycle is driven by _____ and the ______.
What is Gravity, Sun.
The cooling process by which a gas changes back into a liquid.
What is Condensation.
About how much of the water on Earth is salt water?
What is ~97%.
What force pulls water from clouds down to earth in the form of precipitation?
What is Gravity.
Water leaves a plant through it's.
What are leaves.
About how much of the water on Earth is drinkable water?
What is < 1%.
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process.
What is Transpiration.
What is the gas form of water.
What is Water Vapor.
Where does most of the earths evaporation come from.
What are oceans.
True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from millions of years ago.
What is True.
What causes clouds to form?
What is Water vapor rising into the air and cooling back into liquid water drops.
Is the water cycle infinite?
What is yes.
Name two forms of precipitation.
What are rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
When water vapor turns into a liquid in the atmosphere it forms...
What is a cloud.
Any form of water that falls from the clouds.
What is precipitation.
About how long can humans survive without water?
What is ~3 days.
Run off depends on _______ to move water across land.
What is gravity.
When water moves from the sky to the earth what happens.
What is precipitation.
What is water found underground called?
What is Ground Water.
True or False? Water is created during the Water Cycle.
What is False.
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun.
When liquid water turns to water vapor.
What is Evaporation.
What type of precipitation falls as frozen crystals?
What is Snow.
The process of condensation is when a gas turns into a ...
What is Liquid.
This is is the process of water being soaked into/moving through the ground.
What is Infiltration.
Where or in what form is most of Earth's Freshwater.
What are Ice form - Glaciers/ice burgs.
List the water cycle steps in order.
What is Evaporation, Sublimation, Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff,Infiltration, Accumulation,Groundwater.
What are two elements that make up water, and how many atoms of each are required?
What are 2 Hydrogen & 1 Oxygen Atoms.
Name 2 processes that absorb energy in order to happen.
What are What are evaporation and transpiration.
Why does the salt from the oceans not evaporate with the rest of the water?
What is Salt is too heavy to evaporate with the rest of the water.