Earth Science Chp. 1
All the water on Earth makes up this
About_______ percent of Earth's water is found in it's salty oceans & seas
What is 97%?
The change of state from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
Water that fills and moves through these spaces in rock and sediment
What is groundwater?
This person is the reason we use SI unit (N)
Who is Issac Newton?
Earth's 3 structural zones of earth are______ (Name it in order)
What is Crust, Mantle, and Core?
This layer includes the crust and uppermost mantle.
What is lithosphere?
This process in the water cycle involves water turning into vapor.
What is Evaporation?
A Set volume of rock or sediment, the percentage of the rock or sediment that consists of open spaces
What is porosity?
Name the cycles of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, transpiration, runoff, infiltration, and precipitation?
Who is a Geologist?
We use this to gather information about Earth's interior.
Sesimic Waves
The continuous cycle of evapotranspiration, condensation, and precipitation establishes Earth’s __________
What is water budget?
What are two permeable rocks and one impermeable rock?
What is sandstone and limestone and clay?
This system in which both energy and matter are exchanged with the surroundings.
What is an open system?
I charted the position of planets and stars nearly 4,000 years ago.
Who are the Babylonians?
This is composed of all the forms of life in the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere...it extends from the deepest part of the ocean to the atmosphere above Earth's surface.
What is biosphere?
This person_________, an ancient Greek philosopher, believed that rivers such as the Nile and the Danube could be supplied by rain and snow alone
Who is Aristole?
The speed of groundwater increases as the water table’s ____________ increases
What is gradient?
This natural event produces huge ocean waves that destroy shorelines
What is an earthquake?
The scientific study of Earth's atmosphere especially in relation to weather and climate
What is Meterology?
The two most basic components of the universe
What is matter and energy?
The total loss of water from an area, which equals the sum of the water lost by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and the water lost by transpiration from organisms _________
What is evapotranspiration?
Pumping water from a well lowers the water table around the well and forms a ___________
What is cone of depression?
This observatory built by__________ the ancient is one of the oldest known observatories in the Americas.
What is Maya of Central America?