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Water on Earth
Freshwater
Ocean Movements
Ocean Zones
Properties of Water
100
Most of the water on Earth is found here
What is the ocean
100
Using less of a resource so that it will not be used up
What is conservation
100
The movement of energy through a body of water
What is a wave
100
Magma coming up through cracks in the ocean floor cause this
What is sea floor spreading
100
A molecule with electrically charged areas
What is a polar molecule
200
Water that fills the cracks and spaces underground
What is groundwater
200
The process of removing salt from water
What is desalination
200
The horizontal distance between wave crests
What is wavelength
200
The term used to describe any animal that swims freely in the ocean
What are nekton
200
The attraction of water molecules that causes them to pull each other up through openings (like a straw)
What is capillary action
300
The continuous process where water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again
What is the water cycle
300
The addition of a substance that has a negative effect on water
What is water pollution
300
Tides are caused by the pull of gravity from this extraterrestrial body
What is the moon
300
Coastal inlets or bays where you would find brackish water
What is an estuary
300
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a specific mass of a substance by one degree C
What is specific heat
400
The 3 major types of freshwater wetlands
What are marshes, swamps and bogs
400
This happens when an area has an extended period of time with little or no rainfall
What is a drought
400
These two things happen as you move down through the ocean
What are: pressure increases and temperature decreases
400
Coral reefs and kelp forests are found in this zone
What is the neritic zone
400
The process by which a liquid changes to a gas
What is evaporation
500
By drilling into this, people can get freshwater from underground
What is an aquifer
500
Hydroelectric power collects this kind of energy from moving water
What is kinetic energy
500
Deep currents in the ocean are caused by differences in this
What is the density of the water
500
Most ocean pollution is caused by this
What is human activity
500
Many substances dissolve in water because of this property
What is universal solvent