Water Everywhere
What is the chemical combination for water?
H20
Large salty bodies of water that the coastline is a part of, in they are the biggest bodies of water on the planet.
Ocean
The ___________ is an all-encompassing term for those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground. Thus, there is a wide overlap with the hydrosphere.
Cryosphere
__________, describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation.
The Water Cycle
a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network.
System
It's a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.
Watershed
A__________ is a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity. A _______can be wide and deep, or shallow enough for a person to wade across. A flowing body of water that is smaller than a_____ is called a stream, creek, or brook.
Rive
The ________ of Earth or air is the layer of gases retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet.
atmosphere
__________ is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapour or steam.
Evaporation
The five systems of Earth (geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere) interact to produce the environments we are familiar with.What are they refer to as?
Earth System
(True of False) Bill decided to research the hydrosphere for a class project. He is focusing on the ways the ocean varies in salinity, temperature, and depth. As you descend into the ocean, the water temperature decreases while the water pressure increases.
True
___________landforms are the landforms along the __________ that are mostly formed by erosion and sediments from waves, longshore currents, rip currents, tides, and climatic factors like wind and rainfall, and temperature including headlands, cliffs, bays, spits, salt marshes, and beaches.
Coastline
The continents, the ocean floor, all of the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts are all considered part of the __________.
Geosphere
_________is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.
Condensation
___________ is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces.
Topography
A________is an underground layer of water-bearing, permeable rock, rock fractures, or unconsolidated materials. Groundwater from ______ can be extracted using a water well.
Aquifers
Mostly flat landforms that primarily lush grasslands.
Plains
The ________, also known as the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on Earth.
biosphere
__________ is water that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface.
Precipitation
A is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
Mountain
Jenny read that most of Earth’s water is salt water, while only 3% is fresh water. She also read that not all of the freshwater is accessible. Most of Earth’s freshwater is tied up in which two areas?
Glacier and Underground
________ are wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. Although very uncommon, _________ can also empty into the land.
Delta
All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
Hydrosphere
__________ is the process by which plants release water into the atmosphere through their leaves, stems, and flowers. It's a passive process that doesn't require energy from the plant.
Transpiration
What percentage of our Earth's water?