| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the water cycle? | Movement of water between the atmosphere, land, oceans, and even living things |
| What are the three states of water | liquid, solid(ice), and gas |
| How does water reach the atmosphere | Water reaches the atmosphere through evaporation, transpiration, and sublimation |
| What is evaporation | when liquid water changes into water vapor |
| What is Transpiration | release of water vapor into the air by plants |
| What is sublimation | solid water changing directly to water without first becoming a liquid |
| what is condensation | the change of state from a gas to a liquid |
| What are some forms of condensation | Clouds, mist, fog, and dew are some forms of condensation |
| What is precipatation | Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface |
| What are the three common forms of precipataion | Rain, snow, and hail are the 3 common forms of precipatation |
| What is runoff | runoff is when water flows downhill over land |
| What does water transport? | energy and matter |
| what are the 3 examples of how water absorbs energy | When it melts, evaporates, or sublimates |
| What is the name of the master current in the oceans around the world | Thermoline Conveyor |
| What are created when cold waters sink and cold waters rise | currents are created in the ocean when cold waters sink and cold waters rise |
| when does water release | when it condenses, freezes, or deposits |
| What is surface water | water found above earth's surface |
| Where can surface water be found | in rivers, lakes, and streams |
| Surface water and runoff fills up spaces between | rocks |
| What is groundwater? | Water below Earth's surface |
| What is the water table? | the upper boundary or surface of groundwater |
| What is a tributary | A smaller stream that feeds into a river and into a river system |
| What is a channel | A path that a stream follows and gets wider over time |
| What is a river system | A network of streams and rivers that drain an area of runoff |
| What is a divide | it separates watersheds from one another |
| What is infiltration | When some of the water on land seeps into the ground |
| What is a water shed | The area of land that is drained by a river system |
| What is the largest watershed In the US | Mississippi River watershed |
| What is a gradiant | A measure of the change in elevation over a certain distance |
| What is a river's flow | the amount of water that moves through the river channel in a given amount of time |
| What is an aquifer | A body of sediments or rocks that stores groundwater and allows it to flow |
| What is porosity | The percentage of rock with open pores |
| What does permeability measure | how easily water flows through an aquifer |
| What is discharge | The process in which ground water becomes surface water |
| What is a stream load | Matirials carried by a stream |