Currents
A steady stream-like movement of matter in one direction.
What is a current?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
The rise and fall of ocean water levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
BONUS QUESTION: How often do tides happen?
What is a tide?
2 times a day
Waves in the ocean are caused by local wind, earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions.
What causes waves?
The process by which a gas such as water vapor, changes to a liquid, such as water.
What is condensation?
What are the mechanisms that help start or maintain the water cycle?
The sun heats the surface or ocean water where gravity brings water down to earth from high land elevations or the atmosphere.
a current near the surface of the ocean that is driven by global wind systems that are fueled by energy from the sun
What is a surface current?
When water is at its lowest point on land
What is low tide?
Waves are movements of water on the surface of the ocean that carry energy from one place to another.
What are waves?
Any form of water, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, that falls to the earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
An underground layer of rock or soil that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
These deep water currents are known as the global conveyor belt and this belt is driven by density and temperature differences in the water.
What are deep ocean currents?
When water reaches the highest point on land.
What is high tide?
When an underwater volcano erupts, what happens to its energy?
It becomes ocean waves.
To change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor.
What is evaporation?
Bodies of water on Earth where freshwater is being collected and stored in various locations during the water cycle.
What is a lake, river or stream?
The force caused by the Earth's rotation that drives the wind that moves the ocean's surface water, and determines the directions of surface currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
A period of moderate tides when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other. The tides have a small tidal range.
What is a Neap Tide?
How are waves arranged in size?
Waves come in a variety of sizes and shapes, from tiny ripples from the wind to gigantic waves during hurricanes.
Precipitation that lands on the ground soaks into the earth.
What is infiltration?
Water that fills the cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.
What is groundwater?
Why would ocean currents circulate within the layer of water with the same density?
Circulation in the depths of the ocean is horizontal. That is, water moves along the layers with the same density. There is the ocean "conveyor belt", where surface waters sink, enter deep water circulation, then resurface after slowly flowing through the deep ocean.
A tide in which the difference between high and low tide is the greatest. This tide occurs when the Earth, Moon, and Sun’s collective gravitational pull on the Earth's water is strengthened.
What is a Spring tide?
A colossal wave caused by an offshore earthquake that can destroy entire cities.
What is a tsunami?
Where plants absorb water from the soil through their roots, transport it through their stems, and release it as water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Water from rain or snow that flows over the surface of the ground into streams.
What is runoff?