This term encompasses all of the water on Earth, including what is found in the atmosphere and the lithosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
Often triggered by an earthquake or landslide on the ocean floor, this is a giant wave that can travel great distances.
What is a Tsunami?
Winds that blow east to west near the equator and can shorten a westward sea journey.
What are trade winds?
The state of matter that has a specific volume, but its shape is determined by its container.
What is liquid?
Ideally suited for a rock or a crown rather than a cube, this technique determines volume by noting how much water an irregularly shaped object takes the place of.
What is displacement?
Water that does not evaporate or soak into the ground, but instead flows across the Earth's surface, is known as this.
What is runoff?
These parts of the coastline project farther out into the ocean than the land next to them, often creating a protective barrier for bays.
What are Headlands?
The averaged long-term conditions of a specific area.
What is climate?
This core principle of the particle theory states that heating matter causes the particles to do this.
What is move faster (or increase their kinetic energy)?
Because ice has less of this property than liquid water, ice cubes will float in your drink.
What is density?
This measurement refers specifically to the amount of salt dissolved in a set amount of water.
What is salinity?
This specific type of tide creates the largest tidal movements and occurs when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are all lined up.
What is a Spring Tide?
The process of heat transfer in air that creates weather patterns over large areas of Earth.
What is convention current?
Change that can be made in a maple syrup factory when the syrup is overfilling bottles.
What is decrease the temperature of the factory?
The equation used to calculate mass of a substance, if given volume and density.
What is m = D x V?
During the Ice Age, when average temperatures hovered near 10°C, these covered the land from the Arctic as far south as the Great Lakes.
What are glaciers?
This feature is the submerged part of the continent between the coast and the edge of the basin; it is relatively shallow compared to the open ocean.
What is the Continental Shelf?
The weather pattern that causes heavy rains in Australia, Africa, and South America, and marine life to flourish due to upwelling (vertical movement of ocean water).
What is La Nina?
If your milkshake has such high viscosity that it won't go up the straw, you can fix it by adding milk to lower this of the ice cream solids.
What is concentration?
The measurement given when you stand on a scale.
What is weight?
Scientists use this specific tool to assess water quality and ecosystem health by analyzing the types and abundance of organisms living there.
What is the biotic index?
Found in the wide open regions between continents and mountain ranges, these are the flat, expansive areas of the ocean floor.
What is the Abyssal Plain?
The natural disasters caused by El Niño.
What are droughts, fires, severe storms and flooding?
According to particle theory, fluids like molasses or corn syrup flow slowly because their particles have strong _____ and _____, resulting in a high measure of ________.
What is attraction, friction and viscosity?
When you heat a substance, its particles ______ kinetic energy and move ______, therefore, _____ the volume and ____ the density.
What is gain, apart, increasing, and decreasing?