Water Cycle LZ
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- Rain, snow, and hail are examples of
- precipitation
- Plants release water into the atmosphere through their leaves using the process called
- transpiration
- Spring rains are an example of water in what state?
- liquid
- The glaciers found in Alaska are an example of water in what state?
- solid
- As heat from the sun causes water to evaporate and turn into water vapor it goes from a liquid state to what state?
- gas
- The process of evaporation to condensation to precipitation and the repetition of this process is the
- water cycle
- The process where water escapes from the surface of a liquid and goes into the air is
- evaporation
- Clouds are the result of what happening to water vapor?
- condensation
- Water that collects in the cracks and spaces found below the surface of the earth is referred to as
- groundwater
- Ground that has small openings for water to pass through is
- permeable
- What is a Biogeochemical Cycle?
- Earth's way of recycling natural resources
- Water is made of
- hydrogen and oxygen
- Does the Earth have less, more, or the same amoung of water than it had a million years ago?
- the same
- How many times has Earth's water probably been recycled?
- millions of times
- What are the three forms of water?
- solid,liquid, gas
- When the air is dry, does water evaporate more quickly or less quickly?
- more quickly
- Which property of water makes molecules stick together?
- polarity
- What process causes water to cool to form clouds?
- Condensation causes clouds to form.
- Precipitation occurs when
- water droplets become too heavy and fall to the ground.
- What allows living organisms to live a distance from bodies of water?
- water cycle
- Which process takes place at the pores of plants?
- transpiration
- The amount of water in the ground is
- less than in the oceans, 25 times more than all lakes and rivers, and only a quarter of the amount frozen in glaciers.
- Which characteristic determines whether ground water will sink into the ground or run off?
- slope of the land, level of ground saturation, rate of precipitation
- The zone of saturation
- is where water circulates underground and feeds rivers and streams.
- When does the water table rise?
- when precipitation falls
- What decreases the rate of runoff?
- vegetation
- Permeable ground means
- ground that water can pass through
- The temperature of ground water increases with increasing
- depth
- Heated water comes to the surface through natural openings in the ground called
- hot springs
- How much of Earth is covered by water?
- 75 percent