Vocab
Process in which water moves above, across + through the Earth's crust + ecosystems.
Water Cycle
When plants release water into air through their leaves.
Transpiration (not Transubstantiation)
Largest, continuous, underwater mountain range.
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Removes salt from sea water to make it drinkable.
Deslation Plant
FILL IN THE BLANK: ___ of Earth's surface is water
70%
Solid or liquid water that falls from the air to Earth.
Precipitation
A large underground lake.
Aquifer
Long, narrow deep ocean valley on the ocean floor, acting like a giant dark crack in the Earth's crust.
Deep-Ocean Trench
Universal Solvent = it dissolves most substances more than liquid.
Water
Sun
Process of liquid water changing into water vapor.
evaporation
Found at the bottom between continental crust and oceanic crust.
Continental Slope
Cool air blows from land to the sea.
Sea Breeze
Long, low valley formed when Earth’s tectonic plates pull apart, causing the land between them to sink.
Rift Valley
FILL IN THE BLANK: Clouds form, _____ _____ collide and become ______; they can no longer be suspended by air _______, falls as ________.
water droplets, larger, currents, precipitation
Process in which water vapor changes into liquid water.
Condensation
Vast floor of the deep ocean.
Abyssal Plain
Cool air blows towards ocean from land.
Land Breeze
Massive mountains hidden deep underwater that rise at least 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) from the seafloor, usually formed by extinct volcanoes.
Sea Mounts
Name all four examples of precipitation.
Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail
Where water is located in the gaps + pores in rocks below the Earth's surface.
Groundwater
Gradually sloped portion of the ocean floor that is made of continental crust.
Produced by global winds.
Surface Currents
Incredibly deep, narrow, v-shaped valleys on the seafloor, acting like giant, dark canyons at the bottom of the ocean
Trenches
FILL IN THE BLANK: Most water is in the _____-fresh water-______
oceans, underground