Earth's Water
Ocean Moves
R n R
Under the Sea
Geography
100
place where hot groundwater and steam blast into the air
What is geyser
100
This organism is an example of what type of ocean life.
What is Plankton?
100
water that runs over the earth's surface and flows into streams
What is Runoff
100
a mountain chain on the ocean floor
What is mid ocean range?
100
Funnel shaped depression that results when the roof of a cave collapses
What is sinkhole?
200
A place where groundwater flow naturally out of the ground
What is a Spring
200
organisms that live on the ocean floor
What is Benthos?
200
an artificial lake created by placing a dam across a river
What is Reservoir
200
a part of a continent that extends from a shoreline out into an ocean
What is Continental Shelf
200
a ridge of land that separates drainage basins
What is Divide?
300
water that sinks into the ground
Groundwater
300
Label the crest of the wave
300
A river that joins another river of equal or greater size
What is TRiburary
300
a steep shelf between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor
What is Continental Slope?
300
What property meaning containing many spaces through which air and water can move describes this rock?
What is porous?
400
Label this diagram
400
a large stream of water flowing in oceans, rivers and in some large lakes
What is Current?
400
land area that is drained by a river and its tributaries
What is DRainage basin?
400
an underwater mountain that is usually a volcano
What is a seamount
400
Describe how caves are formed
What is created when moving groundwater moves through limestone to dissolve the rock?
500
This percent of earth’s surface is covered with water
What is 70%
500
A whale is an example of which layer of the ocean
What is nekton?
500
The part of the water cycle when the tiny condensation particles grow too large, through collision and coalescence, for the rising air to support, and thus fall to the earth
What is PRecipitation?
500
Ocean layer between about 300 and 1,000 meters below the surface, where the temperature drops sharply
What is the Thermocline
500
the top of the groundwater layer
What is the Water Table