Vocabulary
Water that is underground.
What is groundwater?
The states in which water exists naturally on Earth.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
The two best weather conditions that allow evaporation to occur.
What is warm and sunny?
The largest area of collection on the planet.
What is the ocean?
The name of the mountain range on the east coast whose watershed to the east drains to the Atlantic Ocean?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The force that drives parts of the water cycle such as evaporation and transpiration.
What is the sun?
When a liquid turns into a gas due to solar radiation.
What is evaporation?
Three of the four main types of precipitation.
What are rain snow sleet and/or hail
When flows along the surface until it reaches a body of water due to gravity?
What is runoff?
The river that acts as a basin for the watersheds in-between the west coast and east coast mountain ranges, it runs from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
When water moves from above the earths surface, to below the earths surface due to gravity.
What is infiltration?
When a gas turns into a liquid due to loss of energy (cooling down).
What is condensation?
The force that drives parts of the water cycle such as precipitation and percolation.
What is Gravity?
The percentage of earth's water that is collected in the ocean and is salt water.
What is 97%.
The name of the mountain range on the west coast whose watershed to the east drains to the Pacific Ocean?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Plants contribute to the water cycle in this way.
What is transpiration?
When a solid turns into a gas without becoming a liquid.
What is sublimation?
The cooling of water vapor in the atmosphere that turns it back into liquid water.
What is condensation?
What you reach when you dig a hole at the beach and it fills with water from below. (aka the top of an aquifer)
The percentage of water on Earth that is available for humans to drink as fresh water?
What is 1%
Permeable soil that is saturated with water.
What is an aquifer?
When a liquid becomes a solid due to more loss of energy.
What is Crystallization?
The two main forces that the water cycle absolutely depend on to function, without either of which the water cycle would cease to exist.
What are the sun and gravity?
The places where water molecules that have been through crystallization might collect as snow and ice for hundreds of thousands of years.
What are glaciers?
The water on Earth now is the same as it has always been thanks to this amazing feature of our planet.
Hint: It's what we have been studying for two weeks!
What is the Water Cycle?