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The Water Cycle

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  • What is evapotranspiration?
    Water moving from plants or ground surface to the atomosphere
  • What is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas?
    Evaporation
  • What is the energy source for the water cycle?
    The sun
  • What happens to water molecules during condensation?
    During condensation the water molecules bond back together.
  • List the 4 Different Types of places that water is stored.
    1. Oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.; 2. Atmosphere; 3. Ice; 4. Groundwater
  • What is preciptiation?
    Water released from the clouds as ice, snow or rain
  • What is an aquifer?
    A place where groundwater is stored underground
  • What is called when water changes from a liquid to a gas?
    Evaporation
  • How do glaciers and ice caps create runoff?
    By melting
  • What 2 processes in the water cycle are caused by the sun?
    Evaporation & Evapotranspiration
  • What happens to the water molecules during evaporation?
    Heat energy breaks the bonds that holds water molecules together.
  • What percentage of the moisture in our atmosphere is provided by evaporation from oceans, seas,lakes and rivers?
    90%
  • Oceans hold what percentage of all of Earth's water?
    97%
  • What is condensation?
    Water vapor changes into liquid water.
  • What is called when water does not evaporate or get absorbed intp the soil?
    Runoff
  • What is a watershed?
    An area of land where all of the water that fall drains into the same place.
  • What is it called when snow and ice change into water vapor without first changing into water?
    Sublimation
  • Name one of the 3 processes in the water cycle that is caused by gravity?
    Runoff, Infiltration & Precipitation
  • What is another name for the water cycle?
    The Hydrologic Cycle
  • How does water move around the planet?
    In the atmosphere, through condensation and precipitation
  • What is the main function of the water cycle?
    The water cycle is the process in which water circulates between Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land.
  • What is called when water moves into the gound and/or into porous rock?
    Infiltration
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