Module 5
The largest source of fresh water on the planet.
What is a glacier or iceberg
Rock that behaves like something between a liquid and a solid.
What is plastic rock
A boundary between two air masses
What is a weather front?
The sum of all water on a planet.
What is the hydrosphere
Small airborne particles upon which water vapor condenses to form clouds.
What is Cloud Condensation Nuclei?
Because of this rivers still flow even when it has not rained for many days.
What is groundwater
A vibration of the earth that results either from volcanic activity or rock masses suddenly moving along a fault.
What is an earthquake
The air mass sub-category that indicates it was formed over the ocean
What is maritime?
The process by which a gas turns into a liquid.
What is condensation
A dense, icy pack of old snow.
What is a fern
This body of water would have the shortest residence time. (quickly moving river or a lake with no river outlets)
What is quickly moving river
Between these two layers, you can find the Moho.
What is the crust and the mantle?
The point at which the earth is closest to the sun
What is perihelion?
The mass of air surrounding a planet.
What is atmosphere?
One of the four basic cloud types. These form low in the sky and are named after the Latin word for "layer".
What are stratus clouds?
The two hydrologic processes involved in transferring water from the ocean to a cloud.
What is evaporation and condensation
The boundary between two sections of rock that can move relative to one another.
What is a fault
A word similar to insulation that means the light that comes to earth. It stands for "INncoming SOLAr radiaTION".
What is insolation?
The point on the surface of the earth directly above the earthquake's focus.
What is the Epicenter?
This rock starts out as either igneous or sedimentary rock and is then transformed by high temperature and pressure.
What is the metamorphic rock?
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components.
what is distillation
This is believed to cause earth's magnetic field.
What is the electrical flow in the earth's core?
The two main factors that determine the amount of insolation the earth receives at any given time
What are the distance from the sun and the earth's axial tilt?
A type of front that results when two air masses collide and neither moves
What is a stationary front?
One of the four basic clouds. These are generally formed in mountainous regions and appear oval in shape.
What are lenticular clouds?