Hydrosphere
The approximate amount of water that covers Earth's Surface
What is 71-75%?
What is salt?
Where MOST Freshwater on Earth is located
What is Ice Caps and Glaciers?
Cause surface seawater to rise and fall
The number of oceans on planet Earth
What is 5?
Makes up 97% of the water on planet Earth
What is Oceanwater / Saltwater?
This source of heat energy affects the movement of water molecules to create motion in the ocean
The percentage of freshwater on Earth that is available for drinking, agriculture, manufacturing, and other uses by humans
When referencing the ocean, this is a continuous movement of water in the ocean that follows a set path AND it can also describe a recent event
What is a Current?
Ocean that borders the State of Georgia in North America
A process that explains how water travels from Earth's surface, into the atmosphere, and back to Earth again
What is the Water Cycle?
The part of ocean floor topography where you would probably find the highest salinity
What is an ocean trench?
Water that penetrates the soil and is stored in the spaces between rocks is referred to as
What is groundwater?
Cold water is more ______ than warm water causing warm water to rise and cold water to sink
What is dense/density?
The largest ocean on planet Earth
The phase of The Water Cycle that helps explain how water changes states from a liquid to the gas form of water vapor
What is Evaporation?
Temperature and Salinity causes what to increase in oceanwater
What is density?
A body of rock and/or sediment that holds groundwater
What is an Aquifer?
This is how often Spring and Neap Tides occur during the 8 moon phases
What is 2 times per month or twice per lunar cycle?
In the entire world, the approximate percentage of the ocean floor that has been mapped
What is 20-25%?
This is the #1 cause of water evaporation from Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes
What is the Sun / Solar Energy?
Energy from the sun heats water molecules causing them to either (sink or rise, which is it) as the cool water molecules sink, creating movement in the water
What is rise?
The three states of matter relative to water are
What is solid (ice), liquid, and gas (water vapor)?
These three factors cause tides in the ocean
What is the gravitational pull of the sun, the gravitational pull of the moon, and earth's rotation?
List the 5 oceans on planet Earth
What are the Arctic, Indian, Southern, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans?