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Water on Earth
5th grade vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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What is salinity? | The measure of how salty water is. |
What is an aquifer? | The layer of rock and soil that groundwater occupies. |
What is a water table? | The top level of groundwater is an aquifer. |
What is a reservoir? | An artificial lake that forms behind a dam. |
What is sublimation? | When ice changes into water vapor without first melting. |
What is sleet? | Frozen raindrops. |
What is condensation? | When water vapor turns into a liquid, such as water droplets in clouds. |
What is evaporation? | The changing of liquid water to water vapor (gas). |
What is precipitation? | The water that fails from the clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail. |
What is the hydrosphere? | All the waters of the earth make up the hydrosphere. |