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Question 1

Water found above the surface of the land, including lake, rivers, streams, and ponds.

Answer 1

Surface water

Question 2

The sun heats up liquid water and changes it to a gas by this process.

Answer 2

Evaporation

Question 3

As water (in the form of gas) rises higher in the atmosphere, it starts to cool and become a liquid again this process forms clouds.

Answer 3

Condensation

Question 4

Water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

Answer 4

Precipitation

Question 5

The process of where water evaporates into the atmosphere through plants.

Answer 5

Transpiration

Question 6

A part of the water cycle and occurs when water moves into the ground from the surface and begins to soak into the soil and rock layers underneath.

Answer 6

Infiltration

Question 7

Occurs when there is more water than land can absorb. The excess liquid flows across the surface of the land and into nearby creeks, streams, or ponds.

Answer 7

Run off

Question 8

An area of land where all of the water that is under it, or drains all of it collects into the same place like a river or lake.

Answer 8

Watershed

Question 9

Water that infiltrates into the earth and is stored in usable amounts in the soil and rocks below below the earths surface

Answer 9

Groundwater

Question 10

Process of water moving through soil and rocks underground

Answer 10

Percolation

Question 11

An underground layer of rock or soil that is saturated or soaked through, with usable amounts of water

Answer 11

Aquifer

Question 12

Having pores of cavities that can hold substances such as water

Answer 12

Porous

Question 13

Harmful substances or contaminants in the environment that cannot be traced back to a single point, there are many sources of the contamination

Answer 13

Non point source pollution

Question 14

Harmful substances or contaminants in the environment that can be traced back to a single point

Answer 14

Point source pollution