Water
Because water can dissolve many things, it is known as the universal _____________.
What is "solvent"?
The lowest level of the atmosphere.
One river drains this area of land.
What is the watershed?
What is an air mass?
The front represented by a string of blue triangles.
What is a cold front?
Water is a charged molecule, so it can be labeled as ___________.
What is polar?
A variant of oxygen that exists in the stratosphere and absorbs UV rays.
What is ozone?
This age river creates V-shaped canyons with its turbulent flow and high energy.
What is young river?
Global winds are caused by this movement of heated air up and cooled air down, called __________.
What is convection? or convection currents?
The front represented by a string of red half-circles.
What is a warm front?
Polar solvents dissolve polar substances. Non-polar solvents dissolve non-polar substances. The catch phrase to remember this is: "Like dissolves _______".
What is "like"?
The type of gas that is most plentiful in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen gas?
The curves that form in a mature river due to the erosion and sedimentation along the banks.
What are meanders?
Global winds have an arced direction to them due to the rotation of Earth which is called this.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The front created when a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet and stall.
What is a stationary front?
The water cycle allows some water to seep into the ground. The process is called
What is saturation?
The third layer of the atmosphere (third from the surface of Earth).
What is the mesosphere?
When an old river floods, it leaves thick areas of sediment along the tops of the banks which are called this.
What are levees?
An air mass that forms over Canada would be this type of air mass.
What is continental polar?
The water vapor level in the air is called this.
What is humidity?
For a well to bring water to the surface of Earth, it must tap into this underground source.
What is an aquifer?
The layers of the atmosphere are defined by changes in temperature with increasing _______________.
What is altitude?
When a meander is cut off from a stream or river, it forms this landform.
What is oxbow lake?
What is tropical?
Cold air masses move along the ground because the cold air is more ______________.
What is dense?