Water cycle
Another name for the water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle?
This is area of land drained by a particular stream, river or lake.
What is a watershed?
97 percent of water on earth is found here
What is the ocean?
This is when cold, nutrient rich water rises to the surface
What is upwelling?
Water's density is determined by these two factors
What are temperature and salinity?
This is one of the most common substances on Earth.
What is water?
This is the area filled by water
What is a river basin?
Of the 3 percent of water that is freshwater, most is stored as this
What is ice?
This is an example of a gas that is dissolved in ocean water.
What is nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?
Cold water's density is ________ compared to warm water.
What is greater?
This is the only substance on Earth to exist as a solid, liquid and gas.
What is water?
All of the water in a river basin eventually ends up here
What is the ocean?
This is the percent of water that is available to humans for use
1/2 of 1 percent (0.5 %)
These are cracks (fissures) in the ocean floor where magma and ocean water mix.
What are hydrothermal vents?
Water with high salinity is ____________ dense that water with less salt.
What is greater?
This is the part of the water cycle where water evaporates from plants.
What is transpiration?
This is water that is stored underground in the water table
What is groundwater?
Of the 3 percent of water that is freshwater on earth, about 30 percent is found here
What is groundwater?
These two things are responsible for creating the global ocean conveyor belt.
What is temperature and salinity?
This term describes currents caused by differences in heat and salinity.
What is thermohaline?
This is the underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates the spaces between sediments and cracks in rock
What is the water table?
This is an area where fresh water and salt water mix
What is an esturary?
Some of Earth's freshwater can be found as a gas here
What is the atmosphere?
This describes what wind and water in each hemisphere moves in different directions
What is the Coriolis effect?
Water always flows toward this point
What is lowest?