The Water Cycle
What is Condensation?
The process in which a substance change from a gas to a liquid.
What is a crevasse?
A deep crack in a glacier that forms as a result of ice movement.
What is the oceanic zone?
The open ocean, where sunlight does not reach the seabed.
What is a low tide?
The lowest water levels during a day when high tide is one-quarter of the way around Earth's sphere.
What is porosity?
The small holes that exist between grains in a rock or sediment.
What is the hydrological(water) cycle?
The movements of water in and between reservoirs.
What is a glacier?
Large sheets of flowing ice.
What is the aphotic zone?
The zone in the water column deeper than 200 m where sunlight does not penetrate.
What is a high tide?
The highest water levels during a day caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon.
What is a water table?
The upper surfaces of ground water.
What is precipitation?
What that falls from the sky to Earth's surface; may take the form of rain, snow, sleet, hail, or freezing rain.
What is the zone of accumulation?
The upper part of a glacier where the amount of snow and ice that accumulates is greater than the amount that melts off.
What is the photic zone?
The upper 200 m of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates.
What is a tidal range?
The difference between the high and low tide in a day.
What is recharge?
What that moves down from the surface into the groundwater.
What is sublimation?
The change of a substance from a solid to a gas without going through the liquid phase.
What is a zone of ablation?
The lower part of a glacier where the amount of snow and ice melts off is greater than the amount that accumulates.
What is the intertidal zone?
The part of the ocean closest to the shore, between low and high tide.
What is a spring tide?
A large tidal range that occurs when the Moon, Sun, and Earth area aligned; this happens at full and new moon phases.
What is an aquifer?
A layer of rock, sand, or gravel that holds large amounts of ground water.
What is transpiration?
The release of water vapor into the air through the leaves of plants.
What is a bergschrund?
A crevasse near the top of a glacier where moving ice below is separated from stagnant ice above.
What is the neritic zone?
The part of the ocean where the continental shelf gradually slopes seaward. Sunlight can penetrate to the bottom in much of the neritic zone.
What is a neap tide?
The smallest tidal range in a lunar month occurring at the first and third quarter moons when the sun and moon are at 90 degrees relative to each other, relative to the earth.
What is capillary action?
Water moves from wet to dry regions in soil.