Water Numbers
The amount of earth's water that is saltwater.
What 97%?
The name for the group Continental Shelf, Continental Slope and the Continental Rise
What is the Continental Margin?
Changes water vapor to water drops
What is condensation/
A measure of the amount of salt.
What is salinity?
The amount of earth's water that is fresh water
What is 3%?
A series of long mountain ranges located in the middle of the ocean.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
Water is released from plants
What is transpiration?
Sea water freezing and evaporation cause this.
What is an increase in salinity?
The amount of earth's fresh water that is frozen
What is 2%?
The deepest, darkest place.
What is a trench?
Rain, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation?
This makes up the salt in the ocean.
What is sodium chloride?
The number of oceans on earth.
What is 5?
A feature underwater like Stone Mountain in Georgia.
What is a seamount?
The process that sends water into the atmosphere by using the power of the sun
What is evaporation?
A decrease in salinity can be caused by one of these.
What is ice melting, precipitation, rivers emptying into the ocean, ?
The amount of salt in ocean water
What is 3.5%?
The water you are drinking has been here this long
What is the beginning of time?
A seamount that makes its way above the water and blows it top.
What is a volcanic island?
Water soaking into the ground
What is infiltrations?
A ship floats better in water with a higher ______.
What is salinity or salt content?