Water

What is the water cycle?

• A never ending cycle where water moves from Earth's surface to atmosphere and back through living things

• A flowing network of rivers and streams

• A group of parts that work together as a whole

What is evaporation?

• When a liquid turns into a gas

• Large lakes that store water for humans to drink

• A group of parts that work better as a whole

What is precipitation?

• When water runs down a mountain after a melt.

• The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas

• Rain, snow, sleet, hail

What is a reservoir?

• A system of tunnels under the ground

• A large lake that stores water for humans to drink

• When a substance changes from a liquid to a gas

What are two major uses of groundwater?

• materials that allow water to pass through them

• Drinking water and irrigation

• Grassy areas covered by a stream

What is a wetland?

• An area of land that has shallow water on top of it

• An large body of water that has primarilly seawater

• The upper level of water undergraound

What is called when fresh water mixes with salt water

• base

• brackish

• tidal

Water that is water that is not salty, has no taste, no color, no smell, and makes up 3% of the earth's water

• Freshwater

• Saltwater

What water contains dissolved salt and other minerals and makes up 97% of the earth's water?

• Freshwater

• Saltwater

What is surface water?

• Water that is free from pollution or other contaminants

• Water that exist below the surface

• All the water that is available on the surface, such as, oceans, lakes, and ponds