Water (etc.)
Water that contains 3.5% sodium chloride (salt) vs. water with dissolved salt concentration less than 1%
Salt water vs. Fresh water
Water occurring in a natural environment, with more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as sea water.
Found in estuaries where river meets sea
Brackish water
Deposit on the Earth of rain, hail, mist, sleet, or snow (product of condensation)
Precipitation
-A dry region having little rainfall
-Sheltered from rain by a range of hills/bottom of mountainous areas
Rain shadow
Occurs when density differences exist within a body of liquid or gas that result in rising and/or falling currents
Convection cells
total yield of water from a watershed vs. the suitability of water for drinking and use
water quantity vs. quality
Contaminated water with harmful substances- usually chemicals/microorganisms that degrade the water quality vs. water that has been mechanically filtered and processed to make it suitable for use
Polluted water vs purified water
Process of water movement through a plant/ the evaporation of water through plants
Transpiration
Bodies of saturated rock and sediment through which water can move
Provide 99% of our groundwater + humans rely on this for most of our drinking water.
Aquifer
Atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the Equator, where the ground is heated by the sun.
Flows toward the poles above the surface of the Earth, returns to the Earth's surface in the subtropics, and flows back towards the equator
Hadley cell
Water vapor in the air vs. percentage of water vapor in the air at a given temperature
Humidity vs. relative humidity
Water that originates from rain (including snow and ice melt and does not soak into the ground
Storm water
The process of change of the physical state of matter, from gas to liquid
Condensation
Any surface area from which runoff resulting from rainfall is collected and drained through a common point.
Separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas
Watershed
Proposed by William Ferrel in 1856.
Ferrel cell
the water loss occurring from the processes of evaporation and transpiration
Evapotranspiration
Water that is underground beneath the lands surface, can be found in soil or in pores
Ground water
The movement of water by evaporation, condensation and precipitation
Water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle
Surface runoff
The smallest and weakest the earth's weather convection cells
Polar cell
These water impacts can be Grey, Green and Blue
What are types of water footprints?
Water that moves through the soil by the force of gravity vs. the water that remains in the soil after the moved water is drained out
Gravitational water and Capillary water
The movement of water as a vapor off of surfaces.
Evaporation
Where drinking and waste water are treated off site and where water moves primarily over impervious surfaces
Urban watershed
The directional deflection of air as the earth spins on its axis
Coriolis Effect