The interface that develops when water infiltrates down under the influence of gravity until it meets the interface between the zone of saturation and the zone of aeration
What is water table?
100
The average weather conditions in a place
What is climate?
100
It is determined by the factors that include latitude, planetary winds and pressure belts, oceans, ocean currents, mountains, elevation, amount of cloud cover, and vegetation.
What are the factors that determine climate
100
Movements of air over earth's surface that blow in the same direction most of the time
What are prevailing winds
200
Precipitation that seep into the upper parts of earth's lithosphere under the influence of gravity.
What is infiltrate?
200
The percentage of open space in a material compared to its total volume
What is porosity?
200
It is determined by the solar energy or the insolation it recieves
What is used to find an area's average temperature?
200
The part of the sun's radiation that is received by Earth
What is insolation?
200
Weather changes caused by the seasonal shifts in the direction of prevailing winds
What are monsoons
300
Another word for water cycle
What is hydrologic cycle?
300
The ability of a material to allow fluids such as water to pass through
What is permeability?
300
These are 2 most important characteristics of the temperature of a region.
The average temperature over the year and the range of average monthly temperatures are the 2 most important characteristics that determines what?
300
Because of this angle of insolation the average temperatures of some months are low
What is the result of maximum angle of intensity?
300
The cutting down of whole sections of the forest
What is deforestation
400
It is 1/3 of the precipitation that flows over earth's surface
What is runoff?
400
The attractive force between water molecules and the surrounding earth materials during infiltration
What is capillarity?
400
The climate of an area if the average total precipitation during the year is less than the average yearly potential evapotranspiration
What would be the climate of an area be like if it is arid, or dry?
400
The building of cities which causes a decrease in forests and grasslands
What is urbanization?
500
Precipitation that can be stored on the land surface, plants, or the leaves of trees as ice or snow.
What is water retention?
500
It is affected by the shape, packing, and the sorting of the particle composing the materials
What determines an object's porosity?
500
The climate of an area if the average temperature for the year is greater than the average potential evapotranspiration
What would the climate of an area be like if it is humid, or wet.
500
Times of advancing glaciers into the mid-lattitudes