Vocabulary
Water World
True/False
Water Cycle
Name That...
100
A measure of how hot or cold a substance is
What is temperature
100
Water in a gas form
What is steam or water vapor
100

The water on Earth today is the same water that was here millions of years ago.

What is true: the water cycle is a closed system

100

The continuous movement of water on, above, and below Earth's surface. Water constantly changes state (liquid, solid, gas) and moves through various stages, ultimately recycling itself.

What is water cycle

100
A mud puddle drying in the sun.
What is evaporation
200
An instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer
200

Give four examples of precipitation

What is rain, sleet, snow, and hail

200

We measure how hot or cold it is using an instrument or device called a temperature

What is false: thermometer

200

The process where liquid water changes into water vapor (a gas), returning to the atmosphere

What is evaporation

200
January snow.
What is precipitation
300
Water that runs off the land to lower places
What is runoff
300
The three states of matter that water can exist in.
What is a solid, liquid and gas
300

A liquid will change to a solid when heat is added.

What is false: liquid will change to a gas

300

The process where water vapor (a gas) in the air cools and changes into liquid water, forming clouds, fog, or dew

What is condensation.

300
Water forming on the outside of a cold glass of water
What is condensation
400
A form of matter that does not keep its shape but always takes up the same amount of space.
What is a liquid
400
This determines the type of precipitation that falls.
What is the temperature of the air through which it falls
400

Water is constantly moving and changing from one form (liquid, gas, solid) to another.

What is true: the water cycle

400

The process where water, in liquid or solid form, falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface

What is precipitation

400
Morning dew on the grass.
What is condensation
500
A form of matter that does not keep its shape and does not always take up the same amount of space.
What is a gas
500
Will water carry anything with it when it evaporates? Why?
What is no, because only the water evaporates leaving behind salt, coloring etc.
500

Water that comes from a cloud and falls as rain, snow, sleet or hail is called run-off.

What is false: precipitation

500

The process where water, having fallen to the Earth as precipitation, gathers in bodies of water like oceans, lakes, rivers, and also accumulates underground as groundwater

What is collection

500

Water level of a lake rising

What is collection