Water Cycle Vocabulary

When water vapor (a gas) turns into liquid water droplets when it cools is called ____.

• evaporation

• condensation

• accumulation

• precipitation

The change from a liquid to a gas because of increase in temperature is called ____.

• evaporation

• condensation

• accumulation

• precipitation

Water with a low concentration of salt found in streams, lakes, and ice is called ___.

• groundwater

• runoff

• water pollution

• freshwater

The flow of water across the earth is called____.  

• swamp

• runoff

• water cycle

• freshwater

Water, ice, sleet, hail, or snow that falls to the Earth is called ___.

• precipitation

• evaporation

• Water Pollution

• freshwater

Fresh water that moves and breaks in soil and rock under the land surface is called _____.

• oceans

• groundwater

• precipitation

• glaciers

What % of Earth is covered in water?

• 70%

• 97%

• 3%

• 30%

What % of Earth's water is freshwater?

• 70%

• 97%

• 3%

• 30%

The movement of water on earth’s surface from the atmosphere to land and back to the atmosphere is called ____.

• evaporation

• water pollution

• infiltration

• water cycle

When harmful waste, like trash and chemicals get into rivers, lakes, or oceans, making the water dirty and unsafe  for people and animals is called ____. 

• infiltration

• swamp

• water pollution

• precipitation