Water Distribution
What percentage of water makes up the earth?
what is 71%?
Water vapor releasing heat energy by cooling in the atmosphere to create clouds is an example of this part of the water cycle?
What is condensation?
The relationship between the Earth, Moon, and the Sun creates what?
What are tides?
A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans is called?
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 a series of waves that form when a large volume of ocean water is suddenly moved up or down
What is a tsunami?
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%?
Water absorbing heat energy and changing from a liquid to a gas state is this part of the water cycle?
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?
An island that forms when a volcano erupts underwater and builds up new land above the surface.
What is a volcanic island?
How much fresh water is available for all living creatures on earth to use?
What is 1%
Water absorbing into the cracks and holes in the ground by gravity is an example of what?
What is infiltration?
What causes waves?
What is energy passing through the water in a circular pattern?
These currents are caused by a difference in water density, which are controlled by temperature and salinity.
What are deep currents?
The steep underwater slope that connects the continental shelf to the deep-ocean floor.
What is a continental slope?