General Overview
Our topic in Dynamic Planet
What is Earth's Fresh water?
A relatively large, inland body of water that is surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
The surface layer of our ocean
What is the Sunlight Zone?
OR
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
When the water droplets become too heavy and drops down into rain, hail, snow, or mixed.
What is precipitation?
This device uses sound waves to map out the ocean.
What is a sonar?
This is not the correct topic we will be questioned on:
a. Water Pollution
b. Climate variability and its effects
c. Channel and floodplain landforms
d. Hydraulic gradient and groundwater flow
What is b. Climate variability and its effects?
A body of water that was cut of from the mainstream river, typically formed in a "u" shape.
What is an Oxbow Lake?
The upper boundary of the saturated zone
What is a Water Table?
Evaporation from plants through stomata. Stomata are small openings found on the underside of leaves that are connected to vascular plant tissues.
What is transpiration?
A climate pattern where the equator of the Pacific Ocean becomes warmer than usual/normal.
What is an El Nino?
This was the previous topic of Dynamic Planet
What was Oceanography?
A natural opening where the underground fresh water meets the Earth's surface.
What is a spring?
What are springs?
This zone accumulates only the deep trenches
What is the Hadal Zone?
OR
What is the Hadalpelegic Zone?
This occurs when the ground can't absorb water anymore from excess precipitation.
What is a surface runoff/runoff?
This country has the most coastline
What is Canada?
This process transports rocks and other materials
What is erosion?
When fresh water and salt water meet, typically when rivers meet oceans
What are estuaries?
The zone where the open spaces (cracks and gaps) in the sand, rock, and soil contains both water and air
What is an unsaturated zone?
The downward movement of water through soil from gravity
What is percolation?
This force cause hurricanes to not form near and in the equator.
What is the Coriolis Force?
The amount of years between the first national tournament of Science Olympiad and the first appearance of the Dynamic Planet topic in the tournament.
What was a 15 year gap? (What is 15 years?)
Fun Fact: The first topic of Dynamic Planet during its first appearance in 2000 was Earth's Fresh Water!!!
First National Sci. Oly. Competition held in Michigan State Univ. in May of 1985.
BE SPECIFIC: A coastal wetland where salt-tolerant/loving trees grow (partially submerged in water). They are near areas where fresh water meets salt water in tropical/subtropical regions. Lastly, they are used for coastal protection (found in Florida primarily)
What is a mangrove swamp/forest?
*Do not accept mangrove marshes
The lowest ecological layer in a body of water, including the sediment surface and sub-surface layers
What is the Benthic Zone?
The clouds move the water vapor elsewhere.
What is transportation?
This country has the largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Every country has its own ocean economic zone, which extends up to 200 nautical miles (about 230 miles) from its coastline. They have the right to do anything in this zone like fishing, oil-digging, exploring, etc.
What is France?