Water Cycle
What continuous process includes water moving from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again?
Water Cycle
What kind of water is the Ocean made up of
Salt Water
What includes all the water found on the outside of the Earth
Surface Water
What do you call water that fills cracks and spaces in the soil?
Ground Water
T or F
Rain, snow, ice, and rivers lower the salinity of the surface water in the ocean.
True
Explain Evaporation?
Explanation Include:
- Liquid absorbing Energy
- Liquid to Gas
- Happens at the surface
Does salt water or fresh water make up the highest percentage of water on Earth?
Salt Water
True or False
The Great Lakes are not an example of a depression created by ice sheets.False
They are
What is a hole that is dug beneath the water table?
Which will freeze first; Freshwater or Saltwater?
Fresh water, because salt lowers the freezing point of the salt water.
What do you call the process of water vapor transitioning to liquid water.
Condensation
Which process involves water on land making its way to streams, lakes, and oceans
Runoff
What does the Mississippi River start off as?
Any One Is Good:
- trickle of water - runoff - melting snow or ice
- underground stream - stream
What size are aquifers?
What is Salinity?
Answer must include:
- Saturation
- salt
- water
Drizzle, Hail, and Sleet are examples of what?
Precipitation
How much of Earth's Water is Frozen
2/3 or 70%
What is the difference between a pond and a stream?
(Be Specific)
Pond Stream
- Still water - Moving water
- Forms in hallow - Runs downward
low lying area - Changes Shape
What is an Aquifer?
Answer must Include:
- Below Saturated Zone
- layers of rock
- Holds water
Where does the surface water in ocean reach room temperature?
What is happening when water from a tree is released into the air?
Transpiration
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Artic
What is a watershed?
- land area
-water going into river system
What is below the Unsaturated zone of soil?
Water table or Aquifer
What is the average depth of the Ocean?
(in kilometers)
3.8 km