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Water & Erosion
Glaciers & Erosion
Ocean Water
Movements of the Ocean
The Atmosphere
100
Water that collects in a land depression.
What is a lake?
100
Masses of moving ice.
What are galciers?
100
The two most abundant elements found in ocean water.
What are Na & Cl?
100
Waters of the ocean that move ingiant streams.
What are ocean currents?
100
The general condition of the atmospher in a particular time and place.
What is weather?
200
Movement of water from atomosphere to earth & back again.
What is the water cycle?
200
Large cracks that form in the brittle surface of a glacier.
What are crevasses?
200
Two factors that increase the salinity of oceans.
What are evaporation & freezing?
200
The two major types of ocean currents.
What are surface & deep?
200
The two gases that make up 99% of the earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
300
Feeder streams that run into a river.
What are tributaries?
300
Landforms made from glacial till.
What are moraines?
300
Two factors that affect the density of ocean water.
What are salinity & temperature?
300
The deflection of the earth's winds & ocean currents caused by t he earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
The process by which the earth's atmosphere traps infared rays over the earth's surface.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
The beginning of a stream.
What are headwaters?
400
A period of climatic cooling during which continental ice sheets covered large areas of the earth's surface.
What is the Ice Age?
400
The extraction of fresh water from salt water.
What is desalination?
400
A wave that reaches shore and the top of the wave topples over.
What is a breaker?
400
The winds in both hemispheres blowing toward the east between 40-60 degrees latitude.
What are the westerlies?
500
The land where water runs off into the streams and tributaries.
What is watershed?
500
The elevation above which ice and snow remain throughout the year.
What is the snowline?
500
The three principal gasses dissolved in ocean water.
What are nitrogen, oxygen, & carbon dioxide?
500
Tides occuring during the full and new moon phases.
What are spring tides?
500
Surface winds created by the polar high pressure deflected by the Coriolis effect.
What are the polar easterlies?