Water Cycle(a)
What is the process called when water vapor turns into liquid water?
What is condensation?
What is the primary source of energy that drives the water cycle?
What is the sun?
What is transpiration?
What is the process where water is absorbed by plant roots, moves up through the plant, and is released as water vapor through leaves.
What happens to water during the process of infiltration?
What is water soaks into the ground during infiltration?
Name the stage of the water cycle where water is absorbed by plants.
What is plant absorption?
Define condensation in your own words.
What is water vapor cools and turns into liquid droplets?
In what form does water fall to Earth during precipitation?
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
Where does water vapor in the atmosphere originally come from?
What are lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is evaporation in the water cycle?
What is liquid water transformed into water vapor?
How does the sun contribute to the water cycle?
What is the sun provides energy for evaporation?
(driving the movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere.)
What role do clouds play in the water cycle?
Clouds hold condensed water vapor, which can eventually fall as precipitation when droplets become heavy.
How does temperature affect the water cycle?
What is by increasing evaporation when it's warmer and slowing it when it's cooler.
Describe what happens during precipitation.
What is water condensing in the atmosphere falling back to Earth's surface.
Identify two types of precipitation.
What are rain and snow?
How long can water stay in the atmosphere?
What is 1 to 2 weeks before precipitating?
Explain the difference between surface runoff and groundwater.
Surface runoff flows over land to bodies of water, while groundwater flows beneath the surface in aquifers.
Explain how the water cycle is essential for the life on Earth.
What is continuously recycles and distributes water.
(It maintains ecosystems, regulating climate, purification of water, supporting agriculture.)
Discuss how human activities can impact the water cycle.
What is deforestation and pollution?
(disrupt the water cycle by altering evaporation, precipitation, and water quality.)
Describe the journey of a water droplet through the water cycle.
A water droplet can evaporate from the ocean, condense into a cloud, fall as precipitation, infiltrate into the ground, and flow back to the ocean through runoff.
What are the potential effects of climate change on the water cycle?
Climate change can intensify the water cycle by increasing evaporation, altering precipitation patterns, and causing extreme weather.