The place where organisms live
What is a habitat?
Small streams and rivers that feed into a main river
Materials where water can pass through easily
What is permeable?
The total amount of dissolved salts in a sample of water
What is salinity?
The movement of energy through a body of water
What is a wave?
The percentage of fresh water in the ocean
What is 3%?
The land area that supplies water to a river system
What is watershed?
Materials where water can not pass through
What is impermeable?
The percentage of dissolved salts in water
What is 3.5%?
The horizontal distance between crests
What is wavelength?
The percentage of ice in fresh water
What is 69%?
The thing that separates two watersheds from each other
What is a divide?
The top of the saturated zone
What is water table?
SOund NAvigation and Ranging
What is what sonar stands for?
The number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time
What is frequency?
Water that fills the cracks and paces in underground soil and rock layers
What is groundwater?
Shallow bodies of water where plants and fish can live because the sunlight can reach the bottom
What are ponds?
The top of the layer where water passes through
What is the unsaturated zone?
The steep edge of the continental shelf
What is continental slope?
The vertical distance from the distance from the crest trough
what is wave height?
The water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff?
Deep large body of water two dark for fish and plants to live at the bottom
What are lakes?
Deep layers of rock and soil where water is saturated
what is the saturated zone?
A broad area covered with thick layers of mud and silt
What is the abyssal plains?
What is a tsunami?