Water Cycle
What is a form of water falling from the sky called?
What is precipitation.
Where is ground water located?
What is underneath Earths surface/in the ground.
What is one of the pollutants of ground water?
What is gasoline, oil, road salts, and other harmful chemicals.
What is the outermost layer of the earth called?
What is surface of the earth.
What is the starting point of a river?
What is a source.
What is infiltration?
What is water sinking into the Earths surface.
Does groundwater seep through Porous or Non-Porous rock?
What is Porous Rock.
What supply does agricultural pollution run off into?
What is the water supply.
When is the water table at its highest point?
Spring.
What is an estuary?
What is where salt and fresh water combine.
Where does sublimation take place?
Where is mountains with snow or ice caps.
Whats an example of a Porous Rock?
What is Sandstone or Pumice.
What are two of the agricultural pollutants?
What is over-fertilization, pesticides, or animal waste.
How does a cone of depression occur?
What is water from a well gets sucked up, lowering the water table.
What is the U-shaped lake?
What is Oxbow Lake.
How many processes are involved in the water cycle? (ex. transpiration, precipitation, etc.)
What is 7.
What percent of fresh water is ground water?
What is 14%.
When pollutants enter groundwater, what happens?
It makes it contaminated or unsafe for humans.
What is the area where all spaces/pores in the rock are filled with water?
What is zone of saturation.
How can you tell how old a river is?
What is by how much it curves.
What are 5 of the 7 processes in the water cycle?
What is: runoff, condensation, transpiration, evaporation, sublimation, precipitation, infiltration,
What type of well occurs when a layer of permeable rock is stuck between layers of impermeable rock and a hole is formed through the rock layers and water reaches the surface of the Earth?
What is Artesian Well.
What is the percentage of litter pollutants in the ocean currently?
What is 8%.
Name four of the five having to do with water? (ex. zone of aeration, etc.)
What are surface of the Earth, water table, ground water/aquifer, and impermeable rock.
What are levees?
What is something built along riverbanks to keep land from flooding.