Chapter 7 Comprehension and Vocabulary Questions- Scott Foresman Science
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
show | Life could not exist
🗑
|
||||
show | The water table is the top level of groundwater in an aquifer.
🗑
|
||||
What is the same about the words evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and sublimation? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | No, water must first evaporate into the atmosphere before it can condense and fall back to Earth as precipitation.
🗑
|
||||
How much of Earth's surface is covered by water? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 3/100
🗑
|
||||
show | About 25 percent
🗑
|
||||
What would Earth be like if the hydrosphere covered only 25 percent of its surface? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | It gets warmer
🗑
|
||||
How would a mouthful of ocean water taste? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Southern Florida- It is warmer in southern Florida, so evaporation is faster.
🗑
|
||||
show | Cold water is heavier than an equal volume of warm water.
🗑
|
||||
show | Salinity
🗑
|
||||
show | In warmer areas, water evaporates quickly, so warm ocean water has higher salinity.
🗑
|
||||
show | Rain or snow
🗑
|
||||
show | Groundwater
🗑
|
||||
What occupies an aquifer? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is an aquifer comprised of? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The water table
🗑
|
||||
Is the water table usually level? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | An aquifer
🗑
|
||||
show | It changes during the year- it will rise when water is added by rain or melting snow. It will become lower when there is a drought.
🗑
|
||||
show | Ocean water has much more dissolved salt. It is not used for drinking, cooking, or cleaning.
🗑
|
||||
What is an artificial lake that forms behind a dam? | show 🗑
|
||||
Where is most of Earth's ice found? | show 🗑
|
||||
How much of Earth's fresh water is in ice sheets and glaciers? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Chemicals form tiny sticky particles that attract dirt particles and sink to the bottom of the tank.
🗑
|
||||
What acts as a filter to remove small particles from water that flows through it? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Water is treated to kill bacteria and remove pollutants.
🗑
|
||||
How could pollutants get into groundwater? | show 🗑
|
||||
What are formed when parts of ice break off from glaciers or ice sheets? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | To filter out harmful chemicals and bacteria.
🗑
|
||||
show | Water vapor
🗑
|
||||
What are the five steps of the water cycle? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is another possible path in the water cycle- when ice changes directly to water vapor without melting first? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the changing of liquid water to water vapor (gas)? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Condensation
🗑
|
||||
What is it called when the water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Ice
🗑
|
||||
show | A watershed
🗑
|
||||
What forms when water vapor turns into ice crystals? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | During Respiration
🗑
|
||||
show | Sunlight, or the sun
🗑
|
||||
What is needed to raise water vapor to the clouds and move it by winds? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Yes, it is heat
🗑
|
||||
What warms the air or water in the immediate area? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The soil
🗑
|
||||
When groundwater slowly moves through aquifers into rivers, lakes and the ocean, how many years can it take? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Puddles
🗑
|
||||
show | Melting, Evaporation, and Sublimation
🗑
|
||||
show | Frost and Dew
🗑
|
||||
show | Rain, snow, sleet, and hail
🗑
|
||||
show | Sunlight, temperature, and wind
🗑
|
||||
show | A cloud
🗑
|
||||
Water droplets form when moisture collects on what? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Clouds
🗑
|
||||
show | Lower
🗑
|
||||
What affects the forming of clouds? | show 🗑
|
||||
Clouds often form when air moves _____ to the areas of less air pressure. | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cirrus
🗑
|
||||
show | Vertical clouds or Thunderheads
🗑
|
||||
show | Altocumulus
🗑
|
||||
What low-altitute clouds are often seen less than 2,000 miles above the ground that cover the whole sky and appear dark due to blocking sunlight? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Fog
🗑
|
||||
show | Snow
🗑
|
||||
show | Between
🗑
|
||||
show | Zero degrees Celsius
🗑
|
||||
show | Sleet
🗑
|
||||
What is also called an ice storm and is rain that freezes as soon as it hits the cold ground or other cold objects? | show 🗑
|
||||
What falls from a cloud when it has formed many layers of ice and has become too big for the upward winds to lift it? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | From the size of a pea to larger than a baseball
🗑
|
||||
show | They melt and fall as rain
🗑
|
||||
show | Ice crystals
🗑
|
||||
Each year, hail causes about how much money in damage to crops and property in the United States? | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Mrs.French
Popular Earth Science sets