Hydrosphere
H2O
H2O part 2
Atmospheric Moisture
Water Pollution
100
The sum of all water on a planet.
What is Hydrosphere?
100

A body of water become salty because ______

What is not having outlets like rivers or streams?

100
Water that is held in the soil & rocks.
What is Groundwater?
100

Water in the atmosphere becomes clouds through ______________

What is condensation?

100
The reason groundwater is so difficult to control.
What is Groundwater Flow?
200
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is Precipitation?
200

The salinity of the ocean is an argument for a young earth because _______

What is The oceans are getting saltier every year?


At current rates, the oldest the earth's oceans could be is 62 million years... that's presupposing there was no salt in the water to start with.
200
The line between the water-saturated soil and the soil that is not saturated with water.
What is Water Table?
200

Water can enter the atmosphere through _____________ or ______________

what is evaporation or transpiration?

200
Three causes of water pollution.
What is Pesticides, fertilizers, gasoline, common industrial chemicals, medical waste, industrial waste?
300
The evaporation of water from plants.
What is Transpiration?
300

How icebergs are formed

What is breaking off from glaciers?

300
The largest source of liquid fresh water.
What is Groundwater?
300
A cloud that has formed on the ground.
What is Fog?
300
When hot water goes back into the lake or river and changes the balance of the lake’s organisms.
What is Thermal Pollution?
400
The process by which a gas turns into a liquid
What is Condensation?
400
A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water.
What is Salinity?
400
The process by which water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table.
What is Percolation?
400
The cooling of gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy.
What is Adiabatic Cooling?
400
The reason groundwater pollution is so detrimental.
What is because 50% of the US Population gets its drinking water from groundwater sources?
500
The process by which water is continuously exchanged between the earth's various water sources.
What is Hydrologic Cycle?
500

Salty ice is called

What is Sea ice?
500

The largest source of freshwater is _______________ and the largest source of liquid freshwater is ___________

What are glaciers/icebergs and groundwater?

500

Before condensing into clouds, water vapor exists in the atmosphere as _____________

What is humidity?

500
The kind of water pollution that is the hardest to track back to its source.
What is Groundwater Pollution?
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