Show:
The Hydrosphere
Fresh Water
The Water Cycle
Clouds
BONUS
100
All the water on the Earth makes up
What is the hydrosphere
100
Where is freshwater found
What are rivers, lakes, and ice
100
The steps of the water cycle are
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation and runoff
100
When water vapor changes into tiny water droplets or ice crystals
What is cloud formation
100
What happens to snowflakes that fall through the air that is warmer than 0 degrees Celsius?
They melt and fall as rain.
200
Almost all of the hydrosphere is
What is ocean water
200
Rain or melted snow that soaks into the ground
What is groundwater
200
Ice changing into water vapor without first melting
What is sublimation
200
_________ affects the forming of clouds
What is air pressure
200
Why do some clouds form at low altitude and others form at higher altitude?
Air pressure, temperature, and water vapor affect the forming of clouds.
300
The largest and deepest ocean of the hydrosphere
What is the Pacific Ocean
300
The layer of rock and soil that ground water occupies
What is an aquifer
300
How does the energy of the Sun affect Earth's water cycle?
What is melting, evaporation, and sublimation
300
Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy, and white. They form at what altitude?
What is high altitude
300
Where does evaporation take place?
Oceans, lakes, rivers and puddles
400
The ocean gets salt from
What are rivers
400
An artificial lake that forms behind a dam
What is a reservoir
400
This makes up a very small fraction of the gases in the air
What is water vapor
400
When very strong winds blow upward into a cloud
What is hail formation
400
Why does water have to be treated before we use it?
To remove chemicals
500
Most of the salt found in oceans is
What is sodium chloride
500
Most of the Earth's ice is on
What is Greenland and Antarctica
500
A water vapor rises, it may form
What is a cloud
500
The types of precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail
500
How do icebergs form?
They break off from glaciers or ice sheets