Geography Class 7

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Worksheet: Sources of Water- Water Cycle- Where is the water stored?

Answer the given questions in your copy book.

Q1-Where is the water stored on the earth? Give some examples.
Q2-(a)- Draw and label the water cycle in your copy book.
(b)- Describe these terms related to the water cycle;
Run-off:

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Percolation:

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Water table:

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Ground Water flow:

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Hydrological Cycle:

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Evaporation:

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Precipitation:

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Transpiration:

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Q3-Precipitation means any water that falls from the air. Give some examples of precipitation. Answer the given
questions by observing different types of precipitation;
a- How is rain different from drizzle and sleet from snow?
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b- How are rain and drizzle alike?
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c- How are snow, sleet and hail alike?

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d- How are rain and drizzle different from snow, sleet and hail?
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Q4- Some water in the air freezes to form snow or sleet and some freezes to form snow. (a)-What do you mean by
frozen precipitation? Describe.

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(b)-How does a snowflake grow?

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(c)-Explain the process how hailstorms are formed.

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(d)-How does a hailstone form?
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(e)- Explain the terms, “evaporates” and “condensed”.
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