Water Distribution
Water Cycle
Ocean Floor
Waves/Currents
Tides
100
The Earth's surface is covered by ______ of water
What is 70%
100
When groundwater gathers and collects
What is accumulation?
100
#12
What is the trough?
100
This powers waves
What is energy from winds?
100
Tides are influenced by_____
What is the moon?
200
This is where the largest amount of fresh water is stored
What are ice glaciers?
200
The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become water
What is Condensation?
200
#14
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
200
This determines the strength of a wave
What is amplitude, frequency, and wavelength?
200
The total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample
What is salinity?
300
The Earth's ocean is composed of ______ salt
What is 3.5%?
300
When water breaks through the soil's surface and goes into aquifers (groundwater)
What is Infiltration?
300
#10
What is the continental shelf?
300
This is how energy moves through a wave
What is a circular motion?
300
The effect of the Earth's rotation on the wind's direction
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
Ocean water has salt and fresh water does not
What is the difference between ocean water and fresh water?
400
When water moves through a plant and evaporates as a vapor
What is Transpiration?
400
#11
What is the continental slope?
400
The benefit of upwelling
What is brings nutrients to the ocean's surface?
400
This diagram shows this kind of tide
What is a Spring Tide?
500
The percentage of the Earth's water that is salt water
What is 97%?
500
The four major steps in the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff?
500
#13
What is the abyssal plain?
500
The biggest current off the eastern coast of the United States
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
This diagram shows this kind of tide
What is a Neap Tide?