The Oceans
The Water Cycle
Clouds
Precipitation
This and That
100
The deepest ocean
What is the Pacific?
100
The changing of water vapor into a liquid
What is condensation?
100
A cloud at ground level
What is fog?
100
Raindrops that freezes if the air near the ground is very cold
What is sleet?
100
Rivers, streams and lakes are types of _____________
What is fresh water?
200
All of the water on Earth
What is the hydrosphere?
200
When air moves upward to areas of less air pressure _______________ form.
What are clouds?
200
High altitude clouds that are thin, wispy, white
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Most rain in the United States starts as_________.
What is snow?
200
Water that fills the spaces between rocks and soil.
What is groundwater?
300
In warm areas, ocean waters evaporate fairly quickly causing...
What is higher salinity?
300
The changing of liquid water to water vapor
What is evaporation?
300
Low altitude dark clouds that cover the whole sky.
What are stratus clouds?
300
Rain, sleet, snow, hail
What is precipitation?
300
A large piece of ice broken off from a glacier.
What is an iceberg?
400
Oceans get salt from a._____________. Most of this salt is b._________ __________ or common table salt.
a.What is from rivers? b. What is sodium chloride?
400
Ice changing into water vapor without first melting.
What is sublimation?
400
__________ form when water vapor changes into tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
What are clouds?
400
Form when strong winds blow raindrops upwards into the freezing air at the top of a cloud.
What is hail?
400
Dew forms during this phase of the water cycle
What is condensation?
500
A current that carries warm water from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
When water vapor turns directly into ice crystals without first becoming liquid water.
What is frost?
500
Vertical clouds which often form thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus or thunderheads?
500
Rain that freezes as soon as it hits the cold ground
What is freezing rain?
500
1. added to water to kill bacteria 2. added to water to prevent tooth decay
1.What is chlorine? 2.What is fluoride?