Earth's Oceans
Composition/Properties
The Water Cycle
Waves/Currents
Tides
100
The number of oceans on Earth's surface.
What is 5?
100
To mix together with
What is dissolve?
100
Rain, snow, sleet and hail.
What is precipitation?
100
Wind causes ripples on the surface of the ocean.
What is waves?
100
The amount of time between two high tides or two low tides.
What is 12 hours?
200
The amount of Earth's surface that is covered by water.
What is 75%?
200
the amount of salt something has
What is salinity?
200
Water that falls on the ground or in bodies of water.
What is collection?
200
Take place under the surface of the ocean.
What are density currents?
200
Amount of time between a low tide and a high tide.
What is 6 hours?
300
The largest ocean on Earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Where salt from the ocean comes from
What is rocks or minerals?
300
When water warms up it turns from a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
Caused by prevailing winds.
What are surface currents?
300
The direction that the earth rotates.
What is counterclockwise?
400
A body of salt water that is partly enclosed by land.
What is a sea?
400
The more dense water is the higher an object will ________ in it.
What is float?
400
As water cools it transforms from a gas back to a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
Temperature & density
What are the causes of density currents?
400
The amount of time it takes for the moon to make a rotation around the earth.
What is 29 days?
500
Another name for Earth.
What is the Water Planet?
500
An instrument used to measure density.
What is a hydrometer?
500
Water that evaporates from the leaves of trees and plants.
What is transpiration?
500
Causes the water and solid matter on the surface of the earth to be pulled slightly by the rotation of the Earth on its axis.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
The amount of time it takes Earth to make one complete rotation around it's axis.
What is 24 hours?
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