Water Cycle Basics
This is the process by which water from lakes, rivers, and oceans turns into vapor.
What is evaporation?
This sphere includes all water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
This process describes water moving through the soil and into groundwater systems.
What is infiltration?
The rain helps the plants grow.
What is the hydrosphere and biosphere?
70%
What is the percentage of Earth covered by water?
This is the step in the water cycle where vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
The sphere consisting of all living things is called this.
What is the biosphere?
Water that is held underground in cracks, pores, and crevices in rock that can shift with Earth’s tectonic plate movement.
What is groundwater flow?
Wind causes waves in the ocean.
What are the atmosphere and hydrosphere?
97%
What is the amount of salt water on Earth?
This stage of the water cycle includes rain and snow.
What is precipitation?
This sphere contains Earth's crust, including rocks and soil.
What is the geosphere?
This is the term for water flowing over land into rivers and streams.
What is surface runoff?
A volcano erupts adding carbon dioxide to the air.
What is the geosphere and atmosphere?
78%
What is the amount of nitrogen in our atmosphere?
This term describes how water is collected into rivers, lakes and oceans.
What is accumulation?
This sphere includes gases like oxygen and nitrogen.
What is the atmosphere?
The picking up and removing of weathered rock that changes the shape of the land.
What is erosion?
A tornado erodes a mountainside.
What is the atmosphere and geosphere?
21%
What is the amount of oxygen in our atmosphere?
This term describes how plants return water vapor to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
This term describes the interaction between Earth's spheres.
What is a system?
When rocks or particles of soil or silt are carried from one location and added to another by wind or water.
What is deposition?
Wind carries seeds to new places.
What is the atmosphere and biosphere?
1%
What is the amount of easily accessible fresh water?