Water Cycle (a)
Does a city IN A RAINSHADOW get MORE or LESS rain
LESS!
When water cannot seeps into the soil and it travels downhill. This is called ______
Run off.
This is is the process water filtering through the soil to reach groundwater below
Percolation
The is the process where a solid changes directly into a gas.
sublimation
What is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle
Runoff
The usual weather in an area is called the ______
Climate
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process?
transpiration
Tacoma is in a rainshadow
True or False
TRUE!
What is it called when rain get so cold it solidifies into small ice balls?
Hail
True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from millions of years ago.
True
The temperature when air becomes saturated an water droplets form
dew point
Water in the form of gas
water vapor
Name four forms of precipitation.
rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere that are sticking together.
a cloud.
When water gathers on the outside of a cold can of soda, this is caused by _______
condensation
Where does water vapor in the atmosphere come from?
evaporation from lakes, rivers, and oceans.
As the altitude increases (gets higher) the temperature - increases or decreases
decreases
What is it called when water moves from the clouds in the atmosphere to the earth?
precipitation.
When water changes from a solid to a liquid.
melting.
Where is most of the water on Earth stored
Oceans
Two things that drive the water cycle.
the Sun and gravity
Which holds more moisture, warm air or cold air?
Warm!
This percentage of water is fresh water on Earth..
3%
25%
50%
3%
State of matter when water is frozen.
solid
liquid
or gas
a solid.
The main landform in Washington that creates the rainshadow
The Cascade Mountains
The climate around the equator
Tropical Polar or Temperate
Tropical
What does a meteorologist study?
Plants
Rocks
or Weather
Weather
When water vapor changes to a liquid
condensation.
What is it called when water travels through oceans, the atmosphere and land over and over again.
the water cycle.
this is water that moves under the Earth's surface?
groundwater