Definitions
Hydrosphere
Water Sources Part 1
Water Sources Part 2
Atmosphere and Pollution
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The sum of all water on the planet

What is the hydroshpere

100
The largest water source of the hydrosphere.
What are the oceans?
100
The type of salt that makes up the majority of dissolved salt in the ocean.
What is sodium chloride.
100
The line between water-saturated soil and unsaturated soil.
What is the water table.
100
Water in the atmosphere exists in these two forms.
What is water vapor and clouds.
200
The process by which a gas turns into a liquid
What is condensation?
200
The source of the vast majority of the earth's freshwater supply.
What are glaciers and icebergs?
200
The approximate residence time of a water drop in the ocean.
What is 4,000 years.
200
The process by which water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table.
What is percolation.
200
The cooling of a gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy.
What is adiabetic cooling.
300
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
300
The largest source of liquid freshwater.
What is groundwater?
300
This type of water freezes at a lower temperature than the other.
What is salt water.
300

Besides rainwater, rivers and lakes are also fed by this water source.

What is groundwater?

300
Small airborne particles upon which water vapor condenses to form clouds.
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
400
A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water.
What is salinity?
400
The process by which water is continuously exchanged between earth's various water sources.
What is the Hydrologic cycle?
400
The process of an advancing glacier into the ocean that causes large chunks of ice to break off is called _______ and produces _________.
What is calving and what are icebergs?
400
A body of water that is not an ocean but is a source of saltwater.
What is the Dead Sea or the Great Salt Lake?
400
A type of pollution that changes the balance of a water source's organisms when water at a higher temperature is returned to the water source.
What is thermal pollution?
500
The technique of using evaporation and condensation to separate out a mixture's individual components.
What is distillation?
500
Rain that hits the land can travel as a liquid into a lake, river, stream, or ocean in these two ways.
What are surface runoff and groundwater flow.
500
The approximate percentage of an iceberg that is not submerged underwater.
What is 10%.
500
When there is less rain than usual over the summer, the depth of the water table will ________.
What is increase.
500
The most damaging results of water pollution occurs in this water supply.
What is groundwater supply.
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