Water Cycle
The primary source of energy that drives the water cycle.
What is the solar radiation?
Are sources of water pollution, that disrupt aquatic ecosystems.
What is industrial waste, sewage, and agricultural runoff?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Includes glaciers, ice caps, and frozen lakes. It plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate.
What is the cryosphere?
These weren't just used in an orchard, they were the first basketball hoop used in 1891.
What is a peach basket?
This process involves water on the Earth's surface changing from a liquid, into water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
The excessive nutrient enrichment of water bodies, primarily nitrogen and phosphorus, often from fertilizers or sewage.
What is eutrophication?
The deepest place on Earth, in the ocean?
What is the Mariana Trench?
This is the primary basic process through which glaciers are formed over time into ice.
What is snow compaction?
In the 1930's, Play-Doh was originally created as ____.
What is wallpaper cleaner?
The plants contribute to the water cycle by releasing water vapor through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
Act as natural environment filters by trapping sediments, absorbing excess nutrients, and breaking down contaminants in water.
What are wetlands?
This covers over 79% of the Earth's surface.
What is water?
The cryosphere helps moderate the temperature of the atmosphere by doing this.
What is reflecting solar energy?
A group of flamingos, is called a _____.
What is a flamboyance?
When water vapor cools and condenses, it forms this in the sky.
What are clouds?
Lead and mercury are common contaminates, negatively impacting ecosystems.
What is heavy metal pollution?
This coral reef system is the largest in the world, located of the coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
The cryosphere only covers ___% of the Earth's surface.
What is 10%?
The most expensive color to make in the 1800's. It was produced from the mucus glands of sea snails.
What is royal or imperial purple?
These human transformations of the earth's surface can alter the natural flow of the water cycle, affecting infiltration and runoff rates.
What is urbanization and deforestation?
This act establishes standards for water quality and regulates discharged pollution into the environment.
What is the Clean Water Act?
You have this phobia, if you are afraid of the ocean.
What is Thalassophobia?
A critical component of global ocean currents, resulting from freezing and thawing that changes the salinity and density of the water.
What is thermohaline circulation?
The paint color that used arsenic as a pigment. Created in 1775 and later found to be very toxic.
What is Scheele's green?