Hydrosphere

What is the percentage of fresh water on Earth?

• 97%

• 3%

• 50%

• 15%

Match the following

• area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year

• wetland

• man-made hole drilled below the water table in order to obtain groundwater from aquifer

• well

• place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in rock

• geyser

• layer of rock or sediment that holds water and can range is size

• natural spring

• type of hot spring which begins to rise thru narrow passages being forced out by heated gases below

• aquifer

Water is a _________ molecule, meaning it hat a slight positive end and negative end giving water unique properties.

• wet

• balances

• universal

• polar

The process that produces water vapor from bodies of water is

• precipitation

• evaporation

• condensation

• runoff

Water is able to travel up stems to leaves in a plant. This is an example of

• tension

• capillary action

• condensation

• dissolving

molecules on surface of water cause a tightness, or "skin" is due to

• surface tension

• capillary action

• condensation

• dissolving

Area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all year

• ponds and lakes

• river system

• watershed

• wetlands

Process of water vapor cooling and turning into liquid

• evaporation

• condensation

• transpiration

• groundwater

Type of hot spring that is forced out of passage by heated gases and steam

• glacier

• geyser

• natural spring

• wetland

Area of land that is covered with shallow layer of water

• wetlands

• river system

• aquifer

• well