Water/Carbon/Nitrogen/Phosphorus Cycles

What is evapotranspiration?

• I have no idea
• Transpiration and Evaporation combined
• Condensation
• The process of water evaporating 

What is the hydrosphere?

• Water on the earth's surface
• Oceans of the Earth
• Rivers, oceans and lakes of the Earth
• None of the above

What is porosity?

• A condition where a person has extremely large pores
• percentage of volume in pore space
• space in between rocks
• when water cannot pass through rocks

If a material is impermeable it means:

• depending on grain size, water can pass through
• depending on grain size, water can't pass through
• water can pass through it
• Water cannot pass through it 

What is a water table?

• a toy kids play with 
• surface of the zone of aeration
• the surface of the zone of saturation
• connected with the capillary fringe

what is it called when liquid changes into gas

• condences in to a cloud then thewater becomes heavy and falls back to earth and goes in to  evaporation
• condensation 
• water
• water vapor

when water vapor changes into liquid what does it form

• rain,hail,sleet, or snow
• water
• condensation 
• snow and water

what could happen when a drop of water falls back to earth

• it goes underground then into oceans,lakes, or rivers
• it goes into your mouth
• it goes underground
• it goes to the beach

does warm water evaporate quicker than cold water

• true 
• false

is precipitation any form of water that falls back to earth

• true
• false