Unit 3: The Water Cycle

Less than one percent

What % of Earth's water ready for human use?

oceans, atmosphere, solid Earth and the biosphere

The four places water is stored on Earth

Evaporation

Which part of the water cycle is shown in the image?

Transpiration

The movement of liquid water through a plant to the atmosphere

Condensation

Clouds are an example of which step in the water cycle?

The Sun

Where does the water cycle get it energy from?

Energy is added

When ice melts into water, is energy added or removed?

Sublimation

The process in which a solid changes states directly to a gas

Deposition

The process in which a gas changes states directly to a solid

Energy is removed

When water freezes, is energy added or removed?

Precipitation

Which part of the water cycle is shown in the image?

water conservation

careful use and protection of water resources

Aquifer

An underground formation that contains groundwater

Adhesion

An attraction between molecules of different substances

Cohesion

Attraction between molecules of the same substance

surface tension

A measure of how difficult it is to stretch or break the surface of a liquid

specific heat

The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius