Friday, April 25, 2008

Water Cycle Questions

1.What is the defenition of evaporation?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/evaporation
2.What three processes occur to form clouds?
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ci-Co/Clouds.html
3.Name three forms of precipitation.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/kimmel/GRG301K/grg301kpcpntypes.html
4.Describe precipitation in your own words.
Precipitation is rain, snow,sleet, or hail.
5.Name five ways you can conserve water.
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/freshwater/work/conserve.html
6.Is the water you used this morning the same water that dinosaurs used millions of years ago? Explain the reason for your answer.
I don't really know if it is or not. I'm guessing that it isn't because that water probably soaked into the ground millions of years ago.
7.What happens to a glass of water if it is left out over a long period of time? (Hint, this is one of the three processes of the water cycle.)
The water evaporates and goes into the air. Then it form clouds.
8.What is the origin of energy that drives the water cycle?
http://web.dps.k12.va.us/ParkAve/water.htm
9. What is the process where a liquid changes from its liquid state to a gaseous state?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation
10.
As a result of what three processes does water travel from the surface of the Earth, into the atmosphere, and return to the Earth again?

http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1139/htdocs/natural_processes_of_ground.htm

1 comment:

browny said...

i went to all of those site brenna