Areas of permeable sediment or rocks holding amounts of ground water
What is aquifer?
Water held underground in the soil
What is groundwater?
Material that allows liquids or gases to pass through easily.
What is permeable?
Material that does not allow liquids or gases to pass through easily.
What is Impermeable?
A place where groundwater flows out of cracks in rocks
What is a spring?
A well in which water rises because of pressure in the aquifer.
What is an artesian well?
An area of land cover with shallow layer of water all or part of the time
What is wetland?
Measurement of how acidic or basic water is.
What is pH?
When two rocks touch
What is conduction?
Hot air balloon rising
What is convection?
Transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
A type of wind that blows steadily rom specific direction over long distances
What is global winds?
The movement of winds to the right or left caused by Earth's rotation
What is Coriolis Effect?
The movement f air caused by differences in air pressure
What is wind?
Regions on or near the equator with little or no wind
What are Doldrums?
Something from the Earth that living things use for survival
What are natural resources?
Cutting large areas of trees or forest for farming, highways, or houses
What is deforestation?
Development of land for houses or buildings near cities
What is urbanization?
Long range average weather conditions
What is climate?
Atmospheric conditions of a certain place at a certain time
What is weather?
The contamination of the environment with substances harmful to life
What is pollution?
The natural process that occurs when certain gases in the atmosphere absorb radiant heat from the sun
What is the greenhouse effect?
A rise in the Earth's average temperature
What is global warming?
A layer or set of gases surrounding a planet and held in place by gravity
What is atmosphere?
Th change in long-term weather conditions
What is climate change?