Oceans
Freshwater
Water Cycle
Water Cycle 2
Random
100
Measure of how salty water is.
What is Salinity?
100
Layer of rock and soil that groundwater flows through.
What is an aquifer?
100
Rain, Sleet, snow and hail are all types of this
What is precipitation?
100
Step in the water cycle where water moves downhill.
What is runoff?
100
How most freshwater starts.
What is rain/snow?
200
How salinity is measured.
What is parts per thousand?
200
Top level of groundwater in an aquifer.
What is the water table?
200
The process of liquid turning into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
The process of water vapor changing to liquid water.
What is condensation?
200
True or false:

Freshwater is evenly spread throughout the world.

False.

Freshwater is NOT evenly distributed throughout the world.

300

How most ocean currents are caused.


What are winds?
300
A lake that forms behind a dam.
What is a reservoir?
300
When raindrops freeze before they hit the ground and form when strong winds, toss ice crystals up and down in a cloud.
What is sleet?
300
When water vapor evaporates directly from ice. (changes from solid to gas)
What is sublimation?
300

True or False:

Particles of water vapor are constantly moving.

TRUE
400

True or False: 

All bodies of water have the same level of salinity.

What is False.
400

True or False:

2.5 % of the Earth's hydrosphere is made up of fresh water

True
400
water movement through a tree or plant and it's evaporation
What is transpiration?
400
When rain/snow melts into the ground.
What is groundwater?
400
A drop of water getting smaller on a car is an example.
What is evaporation?
500
Two ways ocean water would have a higher level of salinity that other parts of the ocean.
Answers will vary. Ex: Where fresh water enters salt water the level of salinity is low. Where evaporation is high (temperature), salinity is low.
500
An example of how the level of the water table would become lower.
Answers will vary
500
Describe how water can be found as a solid, liquid and gas.

Gas: water vapor/sublimation

liquid: rain

solid: snow

500

When water vapor condenses into tiny droplets or ice crystals.

What is how clouds form?
500
Describe how what happens on land in a watershed can affect places far away
Answer will vary