Oceanography
Surface Water
Groundwater
Surface Tension/Watersheds/Water Cycle
Random Facts
100

The amount of dissolved salt found in water

What is Salinity?

100

Water visible on earth's crust.

What is surface water?

100

Water found under earth's crust.

What is Groundwater?

100
Water appearing to have a thin, elastic film covering the surface.

What is surface tension?

100

30 ÷ 6

What is 5?

200

Daily Double! 

The Layer of the ocean that slopes & connect the surface zone & deep zone

What is the Transitional/Thermocline Zone?

200

The amount of surface water used for agriculture.

What is 80%?

200

Where water is stored underground.

What is an aquifer?

200

The principle that all water in a certain area will be funneled to the same place.

What is a watershed?

200

Organic beings releasing water.

What is transpiration? 

300

An underwater slow moving current that circulates all of the ocean’s water around the world. Helps regulate the world’s temperature.

What is the Global Conveyor Belt?

300

Surface water seeps through the earth to become groundwater, then groundwater is pumped back to the earth's crust to become surface water.

What is recharge?

300

The underground aquifers that store groundwater.

What is the Saturated Zone?

300

Daily Doubles!

The biggest threat to our watersheds.

What are pesticides? (or pollution)

300

Taylor Swift fans

What are "Swifties"?

400

Water/air currents appear to spin clockwise or counterclockwise because of the spinning & curve of the earth.

What is a Gyre?

400

5 examples of surface water

What are lakes, rivers, ponds, oceans, creeks, streams, swamps, etc

400

The top layer of the saturated zone that distributes groundwater.

What is the Water Table?

400

Surface tension causes these.

What are splashes, water droplets, & objects floating?

400

The amount of car accidents that happen every day in the United States.

What is 19,937?

500

Water & air rotating due to the earth’s spinning

What is the Coriolis effect?

500

Daily Double!

The measure of a rock's ability to hold a fluid & the measure of the ease of flow of a fluid through a solid.

What are permeability and porosity?

500

The amount of time that water is stored underground.

What is Residence Time?

500

Yay you did it (or not, I don't know if you accomplished it yet when I was typing this)

500

The most coolest, most funniest, most sweetest, most nicest, most wholesome, most swaggest, most best rapper, most tall, most best dressed, most smartest, most Christian guy you've ever met :)

Who is Mr. Mays?

600

What is the Continental Shelf, the Continental Slope, the Continental Rise, & the Abyssal Plain

600

The area where surface water is stored.

What is a reservoir? 

600

Water found under impenetrable rock that requires drills to reach.

What is an Artesian well?

600

Describe each step of the water cycle, starting with water in a lake.

Evaporation -> Condensation -> Precipitation -> Surface Runoff -> Accumulation -> Transpiration 
600

Mr. Mays' middle name.

What is "Edward"?

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