Changing states
Liquid water to water vapor.
Evaporation
The movement of water in the Earth system.
X2 pts if you can provide two correct answers.
What is the water cycle / hydrologic cycle?
Surface water comes from _.
Precipitation (Run off ?)
What is water that is under Earth's surface, in spaces in rocks, or in soil?
Groundwater
List all of the oceans.
Indian, Pacific, Southern, Arctic, Atlantic
Liquid water to ice.
Freezing
Precipitation and runoff become _ or _.
How are tributaries related to rivers?
Tributaries (smaller streams) feed into rivers.
What is the upper boundary of groundwater?
water table
What three things affect surface currents?
continental deflection, Coriolis effect, global winds
Water vapor to liquid water.
Condensation
What are the three ways water reaches the atmosphere?
Sublimation, Transpiration, and Evaporation.
What are the three river processes?
stream load, gradient, and flow
What is a rock layer that stores groundwater?
An aquifer.
What is a stream-like movement of ocean water far below the surface? When surface water becomes denser than water below it, causing it to sink and become a deep current.
Deep current
Ice to water vapor.
Sublimation
What is water called after it goes through the process of infiltration?
What is the land a river system drains?
Watershed
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Go to page 110 and complete #11.
Permeability and Porosity... on board.
Why are upwellings important to ocean life?
Upwelling brings nutrients from the deep ocean to the surface.
Water vapor to ice.
Deposition
What drives the water cycle?
X2 points if you can provide more than one correct answer.
The sun and gravity.
What land feature separates watersheds?
A divide (a ridge or area of higher ground)
Provide four ways humans use groundwater and surface water.
Drinking, Agriculture, Industry, Transportation, etc.
What do ocean currents transport?
Double points if you can provide two correct answers.
Energy and matter.