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Vocabulary
Hubbard Brook
Round and round
Water Sources
Miscellaneous
100
The constant circulation of water from the atmosphere to the land and the oceans and back again.
What is the water cycle?
100
Annual averages rise constantly from 1960 to the present.

What is temperature?

100
The source of energy for the hydrologic cycle.

What is the sun?

100

A term used to describe the area drained by a stream or river and its tributaries.

What is a watershed?
100

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?

What are the five Great Lakes?

200

The process by which a liquid becomes a gas.

What is evaporation?

200
Rates for these water cycle components have been rising steadily since the 1990s.

What are precipitation and streamflow?

200

If there isn't enough of this, plants will start to wilt.

What is soil water?

200

3 percent.

What percentage of the earth's water is fresh water?

200
The chemical symbol for water.

What is H2O?

300
The process by which plants 'exhale' water vapor.

What is transpiration?

300

An experimental forest in the White Mountains.

What is Hubbard Brook?

300

Sleet, snow, and hail.

What are types of precipitation?

300
The units typically used to measure stream levels.

What is cubic feet per second?

300

A change in the quality of water that makes it unsuitable for certain uses.

What is pollution?

400

The process by which a vapor becomes a liquid or a solid.

What is condensation?

400

In Celsius, this would be in the mid 20 degrees range, and is typical of summer high temperatures in the White Mountains.

What is 70s Fahrenheit?

400

A part of the water cycle that involves water vapor.

What is evaporation?

400

Landfills, septic tanks, and leaking storage tanks.

What are possible sources groundwater contamination?

400

The temperature at which water changes form a solid into a liquid or vice versa.

What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius?

500
The capacity of porous materials, such as sand and gravel, to transmit water.

What is permeability?

500

WaterViz uses this musical instrument to indicate precipitation.

What are cymbals?

500
The level where the soil/ground is totally saturated with water.

What is the water table?

500

A measure of the spaces in rocks and sediments under the surface of the ground.

What is porosity?

500

How WaterViz art shows evaporation/transpiration.

What are twinkling lights or fog-like puffs of green or white?