Water Cycle (a)
What is 97% saltwater and 3% freshwater.
The continual movement of water between the land, ocean and the air is called the ______________.
What is the water cycle
The process where soil absorbs water due to the force of gravity is called ____________.
What is percolation/infiltration?
What percentage of the Earth's natural water is actually useable?
What is less than 1%?
When water flows over the Earth's surface and gathers in lakes, oceans, and streams.
What is runoff
Ice crystals/droplets form in
What is clouds.
The amount of Earth's surface covered by water.
What is about 70% or 2/3
What process of water changes snow to rain?
What is melting.
Name the four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
The 3 different forms (phases) water is found
What is solid, liquid and gas
True/False: If you really needed to, you can drink salt water and it would be fine. It just tastes really bad.
What is False.
What do we call a process that has no beginning or an end and goes on forever?
A cycle
Water absorbs heat energy from the sun and turns into
What is vapors.
The rate of evaporation increases as the temperature ______________.
What is increases
What is the greatest energy source that DRIVES the water cycle?
What is the Sun
2 factors that make water vapors fall to the ground as precipitation
What are wind or temperature change
What do we call the part of the water cycle when clouds become heavy, causing the water to fall to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation.
When water vapor in the air is changed into a liquid.
What is condensation.
Where does water move to through the process of evaporation?
What is atmosphere?
What is the sun doing to the ocean?
What is heating up the water and changing it to a gas. (evaporating the water)
when water gathers in a lake, stream, pond, pool
What is collection.
What three human-driven, environmental issues could have a negative impact on the water cycle?
What is global warming, deforestation, and climate change