Water
The type of liquid that is most common on earth that dissolves and transports essential gases and nutrients to living things and carries them throughout the body
What is water
The_________of water rises and falls more slowly than that of air
What is temperature
The loss of water by plants
What is transpiration
A large mass of moving ice
What is a glacier
a small stream of water flowing naturally from the Earth
What is a spring?
Electricity produced from the power of moving water
What is hydroelectric power
Water is less________as a solid than as a liquid
What is dense
The changing of a substance from a gas to a liquid
what is condensation
A glacier that covers a large area of land
What is a continental glacier
a hot spring that periodically erupts
what is a geyser
the force of attraction between particles of the same kind
What is Cohesion?
The continuous cycle that moves water from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface and back to the atmosphere is called?
What is the Water Cycle
water that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth-which can be rain, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation?
A long, narrow U-shaped mass of ice that takes shape as ice moves down a mountain and through a valley area
What is a valley glacier
land areas that have experienced large amounts of chemical weathering by ground water are said to have which type of topography?
what is karst topography
creates a "skin" on the water's surface allowing certain organisms such as the water strider to float
What is surface tension
Another name for the water cycle
What is hydrologic cycle?
The balanced total of all the water on Earth through the processes of evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation is called?
what is the water budget?
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river
What is a tributary
water, usually in the form of precipitation that flows over the land. Occurs when the ground can no longer absorb the water
What is runoff
The force of attraction between unlike bodies that holds them together
What is Adhesion
The changing of a substance from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation
The upper boundary of a zone of saturation which cuts across the Earth's surface producing a spring
What is the water table
A mass of rock that can hold a large amount of ground water and through which water can flow is called?
What is an aquifer?
the percentage of open spaces in rocks or sediments that will hold ground water
What is porosity