Water Cycle
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
What is 2-3%?
This is the type of precipitation that is ice pellets
What is HAIL?
This is the flooding caused by waves that come up on shore.
What is a storm surge?
The (heat) or energy that drives the water cycle to start it's process is this.
What is the Sun?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
Ice at the North Pole and South Pole is an example of this.
What is frozen fresh water?
This type of precipitation is rain that freezes into ice pellets while falling threw cold air
What is sleet?
The water in a hurricane comes from this.
What is the warm water from the ocean evaporates to form the clouds in a hurricane?
All rainwater flows into rivers, T or F?
What is False?
A cloud formed close to land is this.
What is fog?
This is an artificial hole that is dug into the ground ion order to reach water that is sitting in an aquifer.
What is a well?
True or False: Rain occurs during very cold, freezing - temperature days.
What is False?
This is a large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
This is what causes the MOST evaporation of water from a lake.
What is heat from the sun?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
This kind of water is the majority of water on Earth.
What is salt water?
what type of precipitaion forms from water vapor forming as ice crystals in clouds
snow
These three things will help protect a town from flooding.
What are seawalls, wetlands and levees?
The role evaporation plays in the water cycle ?
What is it moves water from earths surface to atmosphere?
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
Underground water is held in this.
What is an aquifer?
This is how many gallons of water the average American family uses per day.
What is 60 gallons?
What are houses on stilts?
This is how surface water and ground water alike.
What is they flow back into the sea?