Water Cycle |
#1 |
What is it called when energy from the sun heats liquid water on Earth's surface and changes it into water vapor? |
evaporation |
#2 |
What is it called when water vapor cools and changes into droplets of liquid water, then gather with ice crystals in the air forming clouds? |
condensation |
#3 |
What is rain, hail, snow, and sleet known as? |
precipitation |
#4 |
What is water that falls on land and either runs off and collects in bodies of water or soaks into the ground called? |
storage |
#5 |
What is the correct sequence of the water cycle? |
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, storage |
Changes to Earth's Surface |
#1 |
Name some slow changes that occur on Earth's surface. |
weathering, erosion, deposition, moving water |
#2 |
What is eroison? |
A process of carrying away weathered bits of rock |
#3 |
Sand dunes and river deltas can be formed from deposition. Specifically how are sand dunes and river deltas formed? |
sand dunes = wind river deltas = water |
#4 |
Name some rapid changes that occur on Earth's surface? |
earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides |
#5 |
What is it called when a break or crack in rocks cause the Earth's crust to move suddenly? |
earthquakes |
Miscellaneous |
#1 |
What is the source of energy that causes most of the water cycle, and what would happen if the source would stop? |
Sunlight is the source, and if it stops shining, then the water cycle would stop. |
#2 |
What is the process of rocks in Earth's crust slowing being broken into smaller pieces called? |
weathering |
#3 |
When water freezes and rocks split apart, what is this known as? |
physical weathering |
#4 |
Where do earthquakes occur? |
along a fault line |
#5 |
What is the way the surface of a mineral reflects light called? |
luster |