Oceanography
The amount of dissolved salt found in water
What is Salinity?
Water visible on earth's crust.
What is surface water?
Water found under earth's crust.
What is Groundwater?
What is surface tension?
30 ÷ 6
What is 5?
Daily Double!
The Layer of the ocean that slopes & connect the surface zone & deep zone
What is the Transitional/Thermocline Zone?
The amount of surface water used for agriculture.
What is 80%?
Where water is stored underground.
What is an aquifer?
The principle that all water in a certain area will be funneled to the same place.
What is a watershed?
Organic beings releasing water.
What is transpiration?
An underwater slow moving current that circulates all of the ocean’s water around the world. Helps regulate the world’s temperature.
What is the Global Conveyor Belt?
Surface water seeps through the earth to become groundwater, then groundwater is pumped back to the earth's crust to become surface water.
What is recharge?
The underground aquifers that store groundwater.
What is the Saturated Zone?
Daily Doubles!
The biggest threat to our watersheds.
What are pesticides? (or pollution)
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What are "Swifties"?
Water/air currents appear to spin clockwise or counterclockwise because of the spinning & curve of the earth.
What is a Gyre?
5 examples of surface water
What are lakes, rivers, ponds, oceans, creeks, streams, swamps, etc
The top layer of the saturated zone that distributes groundwater.
What is the Water Table?
Surface tension causes these.
What are splashes, water droplets, & objects floating?
The amount of car accidents that happen every day in the United States.
What is 19,937?
Water & air rotating due to the earth’s spinning
What is the Coriolis effect?
Daily Double!
The measure of a rock's ability to hold a fluid & the measure of the ease of flow of a fluid through a solid.
What are permeability and porosity?
The amount of time that water is stored underground.
What is Residence Time?
Label all parts of the Water Cycle
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Tm3JU3QTZlpGmVTyVV9q3gjmcqlN4uJESis98j_EfHk/edit#slide=id.p
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Who is Mr. Mays?
Label the tiers of the ocean
(Look at picture: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g2vQc4P8CHgM0DHLr1FZkIKhv7VM-hHfLgkc3EHD-_g/edit#slide=id.p)
What is the Continental Shelf, the Continental Slope, the Continental Rise, & the Abyssal Plain
The area where surface water is stored.
What is a reservoir?
Water found under impenetrable rock that requires drills to reach.
What is an Artesian well?
Describe each step of the water cycle, starting with water in a lake.
Mr. Mays' middle name.
What is "Edward"?