Water Distribution
What percentage of water makes up the earth?
what is 71%?
Drops forming on the outside of a glass is an example of
What is condensation?
The distance from crest to crest is called the
What is wave length?
A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans is called a
What is a current?
An underwater mountain range that forms due to divergent plate movement is called
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
______ is the amount of salt in water.
What is salinity?
There was a flood, and water could not be stored in the ground, so it traveled to a lake, stream, pond, or the ocean. This is an example of
What is runoff
What is the top part of a wave called?
What is crest?
What is it called when the earth's rotation causes winds and currents to flow in the opposite directions in each hemisphere?
What is the Coriolis effect?
This is an area where we swim, surf, and fishing boats are found.
What is the continental shelf?
What percentage of water on earth is freshwater?
What is 3%?
A pot boiling on the stove and releasing water vapor is an example of
What is evaporation?
How many times do tides occur in a day?
What is 4 times a day?
Which current flows deep below the ocean and is driven by density and temperature gradients?
What are deep currents?
An underwater plain on the ocean floor that covers 50% of earth's surface is called
What is an abyssal plain?
How much water on earth is saltwater?
What is 97%?
A plant releasing water vapor from their leaves is an example of
What is Transpiration?
Tides that occur when the sun, earth, and moon are at a right (90) angle are called
What are neap tides?
What 3 factors create surface currents?
What are global winds, continental deflections, and the Coriolis effect?
Long, narrow depressions that are the deepest part of the ocean floor are called
What are ocean trenches?
Where is most freshwater stored on earth?
What are ice caps & glaciers?
Snowflakes fluttering from the sky is an example of
What is precipitation?
Tides that occur when the sun, earth, and moon are in a straight line are called
What is a spring tide?
This type of current moves on the surface of the ocean and is affected by wind.
What is surface current?
What are steep-sided valleys that form in the continental shelf and slope from erosion?
What are submarine canyons?