Basketball
This consists of all the Earth's water which includes all the fresh water found in rivers, lakes, streams, reservoirs, and salt water found in oceans.
What is the hydrosphere
The form that water takes as if falls to earth and soaks into the ground, runs off rocks and structure, or builds up in bodies of water such as rain, ice, hail, dew, and snow is known as what?
What is precipitation
Gaseous water is called?
What is water vapor
The hydrosphere and geosphere interact through the process of removing soil ,rock, and other landforms from the earth's surface. What is this process called?
What is erosion
When an area does not get enough precipitation, it is called a what?
WHat is a drought
These natural events happen when gravity acts on a mass of sand, soil, or rock, causing it to move down a hill, mountain, or cliff. What are these events called?
What is a landslide
What refers to daily or even hourly changes in the atmosphere at a specific time and place?
What is weather
The condition of the atmosphere over a long period of time at a specific location is called what?
What is called climate
What encompasses all living organisms from microscopic ones found in the depths of the ocean to the birds soaring high in the atmosphere. Anything that is alive is a part of what?
WHat is the biosphere
Radiant energy heats the Earth. Conduction warms the air in contact with the ground. The air expands and rises. Cooler, denser air from above moves in to replace the warmer air. This all creates what we called?
What is wind
Magma flows in the earth that can erupt in volcanoes or be released when the earth shakes, called what?
What is an earthquake
What can increase in Louisiana that can replenish the wetlands, produce vegetation including crops, make a larger community for aquatic organisms, plants, animals, and humans.
What is an increase in rain
Too much of this in the water cycle can cause flooding, was away vegetation and sediment, and displace animals and humans.
What is too much precipitation
The majority of Earth's water is what kind of water found where?
What is salt, in the Oceans
Slow-moving large masses of ice are called?
What is a glacier
Seas are saltwater but much smaller than Oceans. A landlocked sea is also called what?
A gulf
Lakes, glacers and rivers are in the smallest category of a type of water, making up about only 3% of Earth's total water. They are examples of what type of water?
What is freshwater
In an estuary, which is part of wetlands, what do we call the water between fresh and salt where the types of water meet?
What is brackish
What is a contamination of air, water, or soil in an ecosystem that can harm organisms or groups of organisms called?
What is pollution
Sediment, nutrient, bacterial, toxic, and thermal are all categories of what that can harm an environment
pollutations
What do we call the ability to use a resource for a long time and the resource will not run out?
Sustainability
A bee has a job to fulfil. Bees work together for the same goals. None of the bees can survive without the cooperation of every bee in the hive. This is what a bee colony is considered what?
What is a colony
Oak forests, cypress swamps, soil, coastlines, Coastal wetlands, gas and oil, sulfur and salt, and peat marshes are all examples of what type of resources in Louisiana?
What are natural resources
What do we call it when we protect and restore natural resources?
What is conservation
An increase in temperature over the entire planet that affects the weather and can cause severe storms, droughts, heat waves, melting glaciers, deadly hurricanes, and flooding is called what?
What is Global Warming