Water Cycle (a)
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud.
What is the process called when water is released by plants?
What is transpiration?
A group of water droplets in the atmosphere. The droplets are pure water in liquid form. This is what we SEE on the observable scale in the sky.
What is a cloud.
What are the two phases of the water cycle that involve a change in state of matter?
What are condensation and evaporation?
True/false: Water is lost in the water cycle into space.
What is false?
Rain that falls from the clouds but freezes along the way. It is sometimes known as frozen rain.
What is sleet.
When liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation.
Where is most of Earth's water found?
What are oceans?
What is it called when water seeps into the ground?
What is infiltration?
When water changes from a liquid to a solid.
What is to freeze
True or False. 50% of the Earth's water is fresh water.
FALSE. It is only 3% that is freshwater.
This form of precipitation is made up of ice chunks which are much larger than sleet. They form inside thunderstorm clouds.
What is hail.
When water changes from a solid to a liquid
What is to melt.
True or False: 2 percent (2%) of Earth's water is stored in glaciers and ice caps
True
This energy source that drives the water cycle and causes evaporation by heating the Earths surface.
What is the Sun
True or False. Less than 1% of Earth's water is usable.
True
The water cycle is the movement of what two parts of the Earth System?
movement of water between the HYDROSPHERE and the ATMOSPHERE.