Freshwater
T/F Sometimes it rains saltwater
What is false
This type of water is found underground
What is freshwater
Small streams and rivers that flow into a larger river within a watershed are called this.
What are tributaries?
The winds energy come from the _____
This powers the water cycle.
What is the sun?
warm, freshwater is much ______ dense than cold, salty water
What is less?
The top level of groundwater (double jeopardy!!!!)
What is the water table?
Watersheds are separated by these elevated areas of land that direct the flow of water.
What are divides?
Without the Coriolis Effect, ocean currents would travel ________, instead of curving.
What is straight.
Freshwater is ____ percentage of all water on earth.
What is 3?
The process of cold nutrient rich water rising to the surface
What is upwelling?
A body of rock underground that can hold groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
This is the land area where all the water drains into a common body of water, like a river, lake, or ocean.
(Double jeopardy)
What is a watershed?
When ocean currents hit continents, they are forced to change direction, a process known as this.
What is continental deflection?
"During the summer, a region experiences very little rainfall for several months. Rivers and streams start to dry up. What will likely happen to the water table in this area?"
The water table will drop.
This term describes the total amount of sediment, nutrients, and organic material a stream carries as it flows.
What is stream load?
This effect causes moving air and water to curve instead of traveling straight.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The five "ation" words related to the hydrologic cycle
(double jeopardy!!)
What is transpiration, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and infiltration.
Ocean currents transport around this around the globe?
What is heat and matter ?
In this area, water from precipitation soaks into the ground, replenishing an aquifer.
What is a recharge zone?
The Ohio, Arkansas, and Missouri Rivers are rivers that that flow into the Mississippi River.
What are tributaries?
If upwelling stops, this happens because the cold, nutrient-rich water doesn’t reach the surface.
What is less food for fish, fish could die off, people could lose their livelihoods?