Water Water Everywhere
ALL of the water (including water vapor, rainwater, river water, groundwater, lake water, polar ice caps, and the ocean water) on Earth belongs to this
What is the hydrosphere?
These currents are caused by winds that blow across the ocean
What are surface currents?
When water freezes, this decreases
What is density?
This brings warm water north from equatorial regions to about Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
What is the gulf stream?
Water is 800 times more dense than this
What is air?
Just like convection in the mantle, denser water does this
What is sinks?
When ocean water evaporates due to hotter climates/temperatures, this is left behind
What is salt?
North Carolina water can flow into the Atlantic Ocean or into this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Deep water moves toward the surface as it does this
What is warms?
The difference in warm and cold water densities cause this type of mixing within currents
What is vertical mixing?
All forms of this are freshwater
What is precipitation?
The Cape Fear is the largest one of these in North Carolina?
What is river basin?
These work to heat and cool the Earth
What are oceans?
These types of currents move enormous amounts of water in the depths of the ocean.
What are convection currents?
Seasons and latitude affect this ocean property
What is temperature?
Large river basins, such as the Neuse and Cape Fear, are made up of many smaller of these
What are watersheds?
This is the motion of the water from the ground to the atmosphere and back to the ground again
What is the water cycle?
These vertical currents of ocean water are the result of density differences
What are deep ocean currents?
Surface currents transport warm water holding heat energy from this area toward the poles
What is the equator?
In Durham most of our stormwater flows either one of these lakes
What are Falls Lake or Jordan Lake?