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The Water Cycle

As Bill Nye would say "The Hydrological Cycle"

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What are the catagories of water use? Agriculture, Household Purposes, Industry, Recreation, and Transportation
What are examples of each? Agriculture: Irrigation Household Purposes: Doing the dishes, laundry Industry: Cool down hot machinery, Processes that make products Recreation: Fishing, Swimming Transportation: Trading along rivers, Ocean Travel
Water that fills the cracks and openings in underground soil and rock layers is called what? Groundwater
The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops is called? Irrigation
What is the place where an organism lives and that provides the things it needs to survive? A Habitat
What is the gaseous form of water? Water Vapor
Plants use water, along with sunlight and carbon dioxide, to make food in a process called what? Photosynthesis
A mixture that forms when one substance dissolves another is called what? A Solution
What is a form of a substance, including solid, liquid, or gas? State
The tightness across the surface of water caused by the polar molecules pulling on each other is called what? Surface Tension
What is the process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to the gaseous state? Evaporation
The combined force of attraction among water molecules and with the molecules of surrounding materials is called what? Capillary Action
The process by which a gas changes to a liquid is called what? Condensation
A substance that dissolves another substance is called what? Solvent
The amount of heat needed to increase the temperature of a certain smount of a substance by 1C is called what? Specific Heat
What is the process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves? Transpiration
Why is water often call the "Universal Solvent?" because it is able to dissolve many substances
How does a cloud form? A cloud forms when warm air carries the water molecule higher into the atmoshpere, some of the water vapor cools and condenses into liqiud water, and then the water droplets clump together around tiny dust particles in the air forming a cloud.
Explain how water from a waterfall in South America could end up in your kitchen faucet. The water could evaporate from South America and fall as rain in the United States.
Why is Earth often called the "Water Planet" and why might it be more accurate to call it the "Saltwater Planet?" It is often called the water planet becuase Earth is mostly made up of water. It might be more accurate to call it the "Saltwater Planet" beacuse the Earth's water is 97% salltwater and 3% freshwater.
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