Water Cycle
The driving force of the water cycle
What is the absorption of solar radiation by water molecules?
Where the ocean’s warm surface layer meets its cold deeper layer
What is the thermocline?
Percentage of the Earth covered in Ocean
What is 71%?
Huge underground reservoir of water
What is an aquifer?
Surface currents are caused by differences in _____
Cause and solution of acidification
What is Acid Rain and reduce emissions of atmospheric pollutants.
The space between pieces of soil and sediment
What is pore space?
The correct order for water going from the ocean and back to it?
What is evaporation, condensation, transportation, precipitation, surface flow?
The deeper you go in the ocean, the ____ the preassure.
What is higher?
Percentage of fresh water on Earth
What is 2.7%?
Stream-filled area found on the cost and inland
What is a marsh?
The cause of Tsunamis.
What is the amount of energy being transferred to the water?
The reason for proper disposal of used oil to reduce oil pollution
What is oil is not water solluble?
The amount of time something stays in a location
What is residence time?
The process where water slowly moves through small spaces between sediments and rocks.
What is infiltration?
___ ___ ___ are used to divide the ocean into marine life zones
What are:
- Distance
- Light
- Depth
The distance from the continents affects the quantity of dissolved materials and salt in the ocean because of ________
What is runoff from rivers?
Underground water stored beneath the water table
When wind blows over the ocean it transfers _____ to the water
What is Energy?
Waste water treatment facilities are used to reduce this type of pollution
What is seweage?
The water-filled layer of dirt below the water table
What is the zone of saturation?
The speed water soaks into the ground
What is the infiltration rate?
Upwelling is a type of a ____ current
What is vertical?
The most important cause of weathering and erosion on Earth.
What is Water?
What is a watershed?
Three characteristics of surface currents
1. A flow from the equator from the poles
2. Earth's rotation effect their direction
3. They travel in circular systems called gyres
Removing lead from gasoline reduces this type of pollution.
The process where an aquifer is replenished by the infiltration of water
What is the groundwater recharge?
How well fluids pass through materials.
What is permeability?
What is a solution for the Great Pacfic Garbage Patch.
What is stop dumping trash in the ocean?
Four Important sources of dissolved materials in the ocean
What are:
- Atmospheric Gases
- Weathered Rocks
- Divergent Plate Boundaries
- Volcanic Gas
A natural region that is upto 80% submerged during the rainy season
What is a wetland?
The ocean level was ____ during the last ice age.
What is lower?
Two ways to reduce pollutoion from pesticides and fertilizers
What are organic farming and capturing farm water before it enters waterways.?
What are mountains and trees?