Water Cycle a
The movement of water from land to sky and back
What is the Water Cycle?
When water changes into a gas and goes up into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
When water vapor condenses and falls to the ground
What is precipitation?
Water sinking below the ground that collects in large underground reservoirs
What is groundwater?
Daily Double!!
Make a drawing of water evaporating from a lake and forming into a cloud
The best drawing wins
Water evaporates from these bodies of water
What are rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
Areas of the atmosphere that contain large patches of water droplets and water vapor
Water that flows along the surface of the land after a rainstorm
What is surface runoff?
The source of all energy in the water cycle
What is the Sun
When water changes from a vapor to a liquid
When water sinks into the soil.
What is infiltration?
When water vapor goes up into the sky, it eventually becomes this
What is a cloud?
The direction that warm air travels in the atmosphere
What is up or rising?
The direction that cold air travels in the atmosphere
What is down or falling?
When water is taken up out of the soil by plants
What is plant absorbtion?
Daily Double!!
This type of cloud is dense and dark and often associated with rain or thunderstorms
What is Cumulonimbus?
Water evaporates from plants
What is Evapotranspiration or Transpiration
Daily Double!!!
Name all 5 forms of precipitation
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Hail, Graupel
The area that we get our drinking water from that flows into the Hudson river
What is a watershed?
This causes water vapor to condense
What is cold air?