Water Movement
Plants releasing water vapor through their leaves.
What is transpiration.
What is liquid water called?
WATER
Where is most of the water on Earth stored?
In the oceans.
What are the two driving forces of the water cycle?
Sun's heat & gravity
What causes clouds to form?
Water vapor rising into the air and cooling back into liquid water drops around dust particles
What is water found underground called?
What is Ground Water.
True or False? Water changes states throughout the water cycle.
True.
What is a storage place for water called?
reservoir
What forces turns liquid water to water vapor.
Sun's heat (Evaporation)
What type of precipitation freezes as it falls?
sleet
This is is the process of water being soaked into/moving through the ground.
What is Infiltration.
The gas form of water
What is Water Vapor.
What is an example of a reservoir in the atmosphere?
clouds & water vapor
What forces causes water to fall as precipitation?
gravity
Name 2 processes that absorb energy in order to happen (*hint: gets warmer)
evaporation, transpiration, sublimation
Name two forms of precipitation.
rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
What is solid water called?
ice
any form of water that falls from the clouds
precipitation
What force causes water to soak into the ground?
Gravity (infiltration)
Water flowing across the surface of Earth is called....
Runoff
gravity, sun
gas changing back into a liquid is called....
condensation
About how much of the water on Earth is salt water?
~97%
What force causes sublimation?
Sun's heat
(ice to water vapor)
What is the special pores plant leaves release water from?
Stomata (transpiration)