Properties of Water
The constant movement of water between the earth and its atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
An area where a system of streams and rivers flow together
What is a watershed?
A form of water that falls from the atmosphere to the earth
What is precipitation?
The amount of salt dissolved in water
What is salinity?
Water that is seen on the earth
What is surface water?
When water vapor cools down it changes into a liquid and forms clouds
What is condensation?
Hard surfaces like parking lots create _________ into the surface water instead of infiltration into the groundwater.
What is runoff?
Heated chocolate on a graham cracker is an example of this
What is melting?
The Great Salt Lake has very high _____ because of its salt content
What is salinity?
All the water in the entire world
What is the hydrosphere?
These help control the temperature of the ocean by moving warm water to cold water
What are ocean currents?
Salt mixed into hot water to gargle with is an example of this
What is dissolving into a solution?
Something that dissolves things
What is a solvent?
Water that comes down as precipitation can soak into the soil to build up this storage of water
What is groundwater?
Ocean currents rotate in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere
What is clockwise?
Oil on a neighbor's driveway can do this to a river far away
What is pollute it?
There is so little fresh water available to plants and animals on Earth because the majority of our fresh water is found ___________.
What is frozen in ice and glaciers.
This moves counterclockwise on the earth
What are ocean currents in the Southern Hemisphere?
When water from a confined aquifer is pushed out of a well because of the underground pressure in the aquifer. The well is said to be an ___________ well
What is artesian?