Water sources
where the majority of the earth's water resides
What are the oceans?
the process by which gas turns to into a liquid
condensation
True or False: Icebergs are frozen seawater
What is false?
The largest source of liquid freshwater
What is groundwater?
the process by which water is continuously exchanged between earth's various water sources
Hydrologic Cycle
The largest source of liquid freshwater on the planet
What is groundwater?
the process by which water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table
percolation
Frozen Sea Water
What is sea ICe?
the line between the water-saturated soil and the soil that is not saturated with water
What is the water table?
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
The largest source of freshwater on the planet?
What are icebergs and glaciers?
Evaporation of water from plants
transpiration
A dense, icy pack of old snow
What is a firn?
The process by which the water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table
What is percolation?
The cooling of a gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy
What is adiabatic cooling?
The sum of all the water on the planet
What is the Hydrosphere?
the hydrologic process that is responsible for making glaciers
precipitation
When a piece of glacier breaks up and falls into the ocean
What is calving?
This happens to the depth of the water table if there is more rain than normal in an area
What is decreases?
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components
What is distillation?
water source of a molecule once it has undergone transpiration
What is the atmosphere?
the two hydrologic processes that would form a cloud from water in the ocean
evaporation and condensation
Largest source of freshwater on the planet
Whate are icebergs and glaciers?
In two areas of land that are identical, except that one has more trees. The one that has the deeper water table
What is the the area with more trees
A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water
What is salinity?