Water Cycle (a)
Water in the form of gas
What is water vapor?
When liquid water changes to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Out of all the freshwater on Earth, this is the percentage that people can access to meet their needs.
What is 1%.
Clouds form when water vapor ________________.
What is condenses?
What is snowpack?
When water flows over the Earth's surface and into lakes and oceans.
What is runoff?
When water vapor changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
Oceans are made up of this.
What is salt water?
This type of cloud is often found in our area close to the ocean. It may cause fog, but not usually rain.
What is stratus?
Is that a big, white, fluffy ball of cotton in the sky? Nope, it's a _____________ cloud!
What is cumulus?
The four forms of precipitation.
What are rain, hail, sleet, and snow?
A natural or human place to store water.
What is a reservoir?
Water in a gas state.
What is water vapor?
A term used to describe the amount of water in the air.
What is humidity?
I'm serious, these clouds for high up in the atmosphere, and probably won't rain on you.
What is cirrus?
When water changes from a liquid to a solid.
What is freezing?
The source of energy for the hydrologic cycle.
What is the sun?
This kind of cloud could signal rain in your future.
What is cumulonimbus?
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
The part of the water cycle when clouds get heavy and can no longer hold the liquid water. This causes the water to fall from the sky to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is the precipitation.
What is an aquifer?
The top level of the water in an aquifer. Hint: It's not a wet place to eat dinner!
What is the water table?
A layer of rock that water cannot pass through.
What is impermeable rock?
All the water on Earth's surface and the atmosphere. Hint: think "water ball"!
What is the hydrosphere?
The fancy name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrologic cycle?