Water Cycle (a)
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
What is it called when water goes into the soil to become groundwater?
Infiltration
This is is the process water filtering through the soil to reach groundwater below
Infiltration
What percent of the earth's water is stored in the oceans?
97%
What is it called when water travels through oceans, the atmosphere and land over and over again.
the water cycle.
What is the correct name of the tall, towering thunderstorm cloud
Cumulonimbus
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process?
transpiration
What is the name of the evaporation process from the leaves of plants?
Transpiration
What is it called when rain get so cold it solidifies into small ice balls?
Hail
What percent of earth's water is freshwater?
3%
What is the water cycle powered by?
The sun
What is the name of the high altitude thin and wispy cloud?
Cirrus
Name four forms of precipitation.
rain, hail, sleet, freezing rain, or snow
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
a cloud.
Animals contibute to the water cycle through these 2 processes
Respiration / Urination
What percent of earth's freshwater is frozen in glaciers and ice caps?
68%
When water vapor changes to a liquid
condensation.
What is the name of the frozen moisture left behind by airplanes and jets?
Contrails
When water changes from a solid to a liquid.
melting.
Where is most of the water on Earth stored
Oceans
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
the Sun
What percent of earth's non frozen water is stored under ground?
90%
What is the name of the rare cloud formed by downdrafts pushing down through the cloud?
Mammatus
True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from the beginning of earth?
True
Where does water vapor in the atmosphere come from?
evaporation from lakes, rivers, and oceans.
The water cycle moves ____________.
continuously or never stops; repeats.
Water molecules consist of these components
two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom
What is the name of the most common rain cloud?
Nimbostratus