Water cycle
The Water Supply
Tides
Current
Ocean topography
100
When water falls and runs across the earth's surface feeding into ponds, river and lakes.
What is runoff?
100
What causes waves to occur?
What is wind?
100
How long does it take for the tide in a given area to change from high to low?
What is every 6 hours?
100
What are the two types of currents?
What is surface currents and deep currents?
100
What geographical feature is located at point A?
What is the Continental Shelf?
200
The changing of a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
What percent of the Earth's water supply is saltwater?
What is 97%?
200
What does the term tide mean?
The term tide is a term used to define the rise and fall of the sea level compared to the land.
200
What are surface ocean currents and where do they travel?
What are warm currents that move from the equator to the poles?
200
What geographical feature is located at point C?
What is a Seamount?
300
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
300
What percent of the Earth's water supply is frozen at the poles?
What is 2.3%?
300
What cause tides to happen?
Tides are caused by the gravitational pull on the Earth’s surface by the moon. (Sometimes the Sun).
300
What is a current?
A current is a large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans
300
What geographical feature is located at point B?.
What is the continental slope?
400
The changing of liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
400
What percent of the Earth's water supply is underground?
What is 0.5%
400
If you are on the coast and the moon is directly overhead, what would you experience?
What is high tide?
400
What are deep currents and where do they travel?
What are cold currents that travel on the ocean floor from the poles to the equator?
400
What type of boundary would most likely occur at point E?
What is a divergent boundary?
500
What is precipitation?
What is when water from the atmosphere falls to the Earth's surface?
500
What percent of the Earth's water supply can be used for drinking water?
What is 0.7%?
Groundwater (0.5%) + Surface Water (0.2%) = 0.7%
500
What is a spring tide? Specifically, what causes it, and what is experienced?
What is when the Sun and Moon work together to create a higher-than-normal high tide, and a lower-than-normal low tide?
500
What causes ocean currents to occur?
What is the differences in salinity and temperature in the Earth's oceans?
500
If I am standing on the beach in Florida, what part of the ocean floor am I on top of?
What is the Continental Shelf?