Vocabulary
Water that falls to the ground in the form of rain, sleet, snow, etc.
What is precipitation?
When water falls to the Earth as precipitation, it most often moves from high elevation to ____ elevation.
What is Low?
This reservoir is found beneath the ground.
What is Groundwater?
Anything that has weight and takes up space.
What is Matter?
This is needs to be added or removed to change the state matter exists in.
What is Thermal Energy (Heat)?
The process that causes a liquid to change into a gas.
What is Evaporation?
When groundwater moves underground, it moves at a very _____ pace.
What is slow?
We have five major reservoirs that surround the state of Michigan.
What are the Great Lakes?
True or False: Molecules are always moving, no matter what state matter exists in.
What is True?
A liquid changed to this state when thermal energy (heat) is added.
What is Gas?
The word used for a man-made or natural place where water is found.
What is Reservoir?
The name for when water drains into the ground/soil.
What is Infiltration?
This reservoir can be found in the sky.
What are Clouds?
In this state of matter the molecules are close together, there is a definite volume, and it can flow.
What is Liquid?
What is Condensation?
The source of energy that causes water to move,
What is Energy Driver?
Water that drains over the surface of the Earth after falling as precipitation.
What is Runoff?
This reservoir can be found high above the ground and it can be found in every city.
What is Water Tower?
In this state of matter the molecules move very quickly, have no definite shape or volume, and take the shape of their container.
What is Gas?
A liquid changes to this state when thermal energy (heat) is removed.
What is Solid?
The process that causes a liquid in plants to be released as a gas.
What is Transpiration?
The name of the force that pulls things towards the Earth and is the energy driver of the Water Cycle.
What is Gravity?
This reservoir is man-made and creates a barrier to confine and control the flow of water.
What is a Dam?
Matter exists in different states because the ________ are arranged differently in the three states.
What is Particles/Molecules?
The term used for when a solid changes into a gas.
What is Sublimation?