Water on earth
A place where animals can survive with everything they need.
What is a habitat?
A river and all the streams that flow into it make up a
What is a river system?
The top of a saturated zone.
What is a water table?
Total amount of salt in a sample of water.
What is salinity?
Movement of sand along a beach.
What is longshore drift?
Contains most of earths freshwater today.
What is Ice?
Covers nearly 1/3 of the U.S and provides water to rivers.
What is the Mississippi Watershed?
Permeable rock that holds water and allows it to flow.
What is an aquifer?
Increases as you go deeper.
What is pressure?
Largest and most powerful surface current in the world.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is where most precipitation falls into.
What is the ocean?
Body of water in which many plants can grow.
What is a pond?
Well that uses pressure in an aquifer.
What is an artesian well?
A long deep valley on the ocean floor.
What is a trench?
Pattern of temperature and weather over a area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Accounts for 0.04% of all water on earth.
What is water vapor?
Process in which nutrients build up in a lake.
What is eutrophication?
Another method of obtaining water from the ground.
What are pumps?
Used to map the ocean floor.
What is sonar?
Effects of earths rotation on winds and ocean currents.
Droplets of water clump around particles of air to form
What are clouds?
Separates watersheds.
What is a divide?
Meaning that water cannot pass through
What is impermeable?
Broad area covered in thick layers of mud and silt.
What is an Abyssal plain?
Move and mix water around the world.
What are deep currents?