HydrosphereCategory
The Ocean
Groundwater & Soil Moisture
Atmospheric Moisture
Water Pollution
100
The sum of all water on a planet.
What is Hydrosphere?
100
A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water.
What is Salinity?
100
Water that is held in the soil & rocks.
What is Groundwater?
100
A thick fog brought on by smoke or other particles in the air.
What is Smog?
100
The reason groundwater is so difficult to control.
What is Groundwater Flow?
200
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is Precipitation?
200
The chemical name for table salt.
What is Sodium Chloride?
200
The line between the water-saturated soil and the soil that is not saturated with water.
What is Water Table?
200
Small airborne particles upon which water vapor condenses to form clouds.
What is Cloud Condensation Nuclei?
200
Three causes of water pollution.
What is Pesticides, fertilizers, gasoline, common industrial chemicals, medical waste, industrial waste?
300
The evaporation of water from plants.
What is Transpiration?
300
The percentage of the Ocean that is "table salt."
What is 2.7%?
300
The largest source of liquid fresh water.
What is Groundwater?
300
A cloud that has formed on the ground.
What is Fog?
300
When hot water goes back into the lake or river and changes the balance of the lake’s organisms.
What is Thermal Pollution?
400
The process by which a gas turns into a liquid
What is Condensation?
400
The Chemical name for Epsom Salt.
What is Magnesium Sulfate?
400
The process by which water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table.
What is Percolation?
400
The cooling of gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy.
What is Adiabatic Cooling?
400
The reason groundwater pollution is so detrimental.
What is because 50% of the US Population gets its drinking water from groundwater sources?
500
The process by which water is continuously exchanged between the earth's various water sources.
What is Hydrologic Cycle?
500
A dense, icy pack of old snow.
What is a Firn?
500
The effect that an excess of rain in an area over an extended length of time will have on the water table?
What is Decrease?
500
The brownish haze from large amounts of industrial and automobile pollution.
What is Photochemical Smog?
500
The kind of water pollution that is the hardest to track back to its source.
What is Groundwater Pollution?
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