Water Cycle (a)
What water cycle vocab word would best describe how a dryer dries your clothes ?
Evaporation
When snow on the top of Mt. Washington is heated by the sun and turns into a gas, what process occurs?
Sublimation
What natural phenomena are measured by the Richter scale?
Earthquakes
Tornado
Floods
Tsunami
Earthquakes
The average total home water use for each person in the U.S. is about ____ gallons a day.
10
25
50
75
50
After precipitation occurs, water that does not run off into surface water can seep into soil and be stored as ___________. *
groundwater
Diamonds are made up almost entirely of what element?
Carbon
Oxygen
Hydrogen
Titanium
Carbon
Name the four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
Water is __ parts Hydrogen and ____ oxygen
2 & 1
Which bone is the longest bone in the human body?
____% of the human brain is water
65
75
80
85
75
Approximately what percent of Earth's water is considered to be fresh?
3
An acre of corn will give off _______ gallons of water per day in evaporation (transpiration).
4
40
400
4,000
4,000
What organelle is also known as the "powerhouse" of the cell?
Mitochondria
Water transforms between different states of matter due to ...
Temperature Differences
One Liter (1 Nalgene bottle) of water weighs approximately ...
Pounds or Kilograms
1 kg = 2.2 lbs
A jellyfish and a cucumber are each ______% water.
answer needs to be within 5%
95%
About ______% of all the world’s freshwater is in the Great Lakes.
5
10
15
20
20
It takes ______ minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth.
8