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 |