Vocab Quiz #17: Unit 5 Weather 1

An underground formation that contains groundwater.

• Infiltration
• Aquifer
• Runoff
• Water Collection

A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon.

• Condensation
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere
• Infiltration

The change of state from a gas to a liquid.

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Transpiration

A small drop of fluid.

• Aquifer
• Droplet
• Evaporation
• Runoff

The change of state from a liquid to a gas.

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Transpiration

Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.

• Aquifer
• Groundwater
• Infiltration
• Condensation

All the waters on earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.

• Hydrosphere
• Geosphere
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere

The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Infiltration
• Runoff

Any form of water (rain, snow, sleet, ice) that falls from clouds and reachers Earth's surface.

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Transpiration

Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.

• Runoff
• Aquifer
• Groundwater
• Water Collection