WorksheetsScience Ch. 4 Vocab
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
a large body of salt water
a)
fresh water
b)
ocean
c)
ice sheet
d)
glacier
2.
water that contains little or no dissolved salts
a)
ocean
b)
glacier
c)
fresh water
d)
evaporation
3.
water that has turned into a gas
a)
condensation
b)
evaporation
c)
glacier
d)
water vapor
4.
the process of a liquid turning into a gas
a)
evaporation
b)
condensation
c)
water cycle
d)
precipitation
5.
a huge slab of ice and snow that covers a large area of land for thousands of years
a)
glacier
b)
Olaf's house
c)
ice sheet
d)
North Pole
6.
a large body of ice that moves slowly over land
a)
ice sheet
b)
Frosty the Snowman
c)
glacier
d)
water vapor
7.
the process of water vapor changing to liquid water
a)
compensation
b)
condensation
c)
evaporation
d)
precipitation
8.
the movement of air from the water to the land
a)
sea breeze
b)
water cycle
c)
land breeze
d)
wind
9.
the movement of air from the land to the water
a)
sea breeze
b)
water vapor
c)
land rover
d)
land breeze
10.
a cloud that forms near the ground
a)
hail
b)
fog
c)
water vapor
d)
cumulus
11.
water that falls from the air to the ground as rain, sleet, hail, or snow
a)
condensation
b)
precipitation
c)
evaporation
d)
water cycle
12.
the continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and air as it changes from liquid to gas to to solid to liquid
a)
evaporation
b)
motorcycle
c)
water cycle
d)
precipitation
13.
a man-made lake that is used to store water
a)
aquifer
b)
watershed
c)
reservoir
d)
ocean
14.
a structure that holds back water
a)
aquifer
b)
dam
c)
reservoir
d)
watershed
15.
water beneath the Earth's surface
a)
groundwater
b)
aquifer
c)
reservoir
d)
watershed
16.
an underground layer of rock or soil which is capable of absorbing water
a)
watershed
b)
groundwater
c)
aquifer
d)
dam
17.
an area of land in which water drains into a specific river
a)
storage shed
b)
watershed
c)
aquifer
d)
groundwater
18.
when water pours over the banks of a body of water and spreads over the land
a)
watershed
b)
pollute
c)
drought
d)
flood
19.
another word for contaminate
a)
flood
b)
pollute
c)
runoff
d)
precipitation
20.
a long period of dry weather
a)
flood
b)
drought
c)
life in California
d)
reclamation
21.
recycle or make usable again
a)
conservation
b)
aqueduct
c)
reservoir
d)
reclamation
22.
a channel built by people to move water long distances through mountains and across rivers
a)
aquifer
b)
aqueduct
c)
dam
d)
CNN
23.
the act or policy of saving something
a)
reservation
b)
reclamation
c)
conversation
d)
conservation
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