Water Cycle 1
Water Cycle 2
Water Cycle 3
Runoff and Groundwater
Vocabulary
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Knowledge Check
100

When the sun heats up liquid water somewhere on the earth; this is the beginning of this process occurs.

What is evaporation?

100

When water vapor reaches the higher altitudes in the sky they cool and form clouds. This process is called

What is condensation

100

Any moisture that falls to the ground from clouds is called _____________?

What is precipitation?

100

The space between particles determines the soils _______.

What is its Porosityf?

100

Water that runs a top the soil and collects into the oceans, lakes, or rivers is known as?

What is runoff

100

These are the 3 states of matter of water.

What are gas, liquid, and solid?

100

The top of the aquifer or saturated zone is called the_________ ________

What is the water table

200

Evaporation turns liquid water into _________.

What is water vapor or gas?

200

During condensation water is changed from a gas to a ________.

What is a liquid?

200

Other names for precipitation are  _________?

What is rain, snow, sleet and hail.

200

The area of soil above the saturation zone is known as

What is unsaturated zone or zone of aeration. 

200

Water that falls back to earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow is known as?

What is Precipitation?

200

One of the most important resource to all living things and no living thing can survive without it.

What is water?

200

The area above the water table where soil and gravel provide water to pass through but does not hold water is the Zone of

What is the Zone of Aeration 

300

The process that changes water vapor into a liquid "

What is a cooling?

300

What two processes that create water vapor in the Water Cycle

What is Evaporation and Transpiration?

300

When precipitation freezes it falls as ___________?

What is snow or hail or sleet?

300

The top of the saturation zone is known as this.

What is the water table?

300

The cycle when water moves in different states of matter from land to the sky to the land again over and over.

What is Water Cycle?

300

Most of the water that is evaporated on Earth comes from this non fresh water source.

What are oceans?

300

The aquifer is found in this Zone of ______________

What is Saturation

?

400

What is another name for this air that surrounds the earth and made up of many layers of air. 

Hint - Begins with A

What is the atmosphere?

400

67-69% of earth's fresh water is unavailable for usage by humans is located

What is in glaciers and at the Ice Caps?

400

Fog is another form of this water cycle process.

What is Condensation?

400

When water penetrates the surface of the soil 

What is infiltration?

400

This is the process where water evaporates out of their leaves and stems 

What is Transpiration?

400

The is the origin of energy that drives the Water Cycle.

What is the Sun?

400

In soil, the ability of water to flow is determined by particle size. If particle size increases, flow will increase. 

What is Permeability


500

Evaporation involves 2 contributing factors They are _______ and ________.

What is Heat (sun) and Moisture or water?

500

Clouds and flags move around due to this ever present movement of air.

What is the wind?

500

When pieces of small round ice form in the clouds  they fall as ________?

What is hail?

500

Water that infiltrates the soil and percolates or seeps into the earth and becomes stored

What is groundwater?

500

This process is when water infiltrates into the ground and then moves through the soil into the aquifer or saturated zone.

what is percolation?

500

A flow of water that bubbles out of the aquifer at the water table on the surface 

What is a spring?

500

Flow through particles in soil is permeability

The space of particles in soil is 

What is Porosity?