Oceans
Largest ocean.
What is Pacific?
2 factors that affect the density of ocean water.
What is salinity and temperature?
Water found in the spaces between rock particles under the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater (or aquifer)?
The sediment that provided the most permeability in the lab.
What is gravel?
Smallest ocean
What is Artic?
Increased temperature would cause salinity to ___________
What is increase?
What is silt?
Ocean near Antartica.
What is Southern
What percentage of the ocean on average is salt? (Average salinity percentage?)
What is 3.5%?
Water enters the ground from precipitation or infiltration (opposite of discharge)
What is recharge?
The majority of Earth's fresh water is stored as?
What is glaciers and icecaps?
Ocean containing the Mariana Trench and surrounding the west coast of the United States.
What is Pacific Ocean?
An area where a river empties in an ocean would have a ____________ (higher or lower) salinity than the average ocean.
What is lower?
2 other places where freshwater can be found.
What is lakes, streams, ponds, groundwater, rivers, aquifers, wells etc.
Water was discharged from this and could provide drinking water.
What is the well?
Ocean containing the Gulf Stream and second largest.
What is Atlantic Ocean?
The scientific name for salt.
What is sodium chloride?
The larger the ________, the greater the permeability.
What is grain size?
What is an area of land drained by a river system?
What is a watershed?
Porosity Gizmo: What effect does grain size have on porosity?
What is it has no effect on porosity?