Water Cycle
When water falls to the earth in solid or liquid form.
What is Precipitation?
The kind of water in the oceans
What is Saltwater?
An area of land in which all water drains to a central point
What is a Watershed?
releasing waste or greenhouse gases into environment
polution.
Over 50% of people rely on the ocean for..
What is food?
Plants taking water from the soil into their roots
What is Plant Uptake?
The percentage of water on earth that is the oceans.
What is 97%?(or a close number)
Water found underground
What is Groundwater?
Taking too many fish from the oceans
Overfishing
Oceans help control the Earth's temperature and stores heat.
What is weather regulation?
Plants letting some of their water out into the atmosphere.
What is Transpiration?
Oceans provide...
What is seafood and transportation
The area that water can percolate into the soil to replenish(Recharge) an aquifer.
What is a Recharge Zone?
The fish you get while fishing for other fish.
What is Bycatch?
The power that is collected by humans from the flow of liquid water.
What is hydroelectric power?
Water landing on a slope or elevated area and flowing downhill.
What is Runoff?
Coral loses its color and loses helpful algae. Caused by ocean acidification.
What is coral bleaching?
Underground layer of permeable rock that holds and transports water.
What is an aquifer?
Species that do not belong and are introduced by humans. Also known as alien species
What are invasive species?
The process of organisms taking in water from environment to stay hydrated.
What is Hydration?
When water seeps into the soil
What is Infiltration?
The field of study that studies the ocean.
What is Oceanography?
The slow passing of liquid through sediment and rock.
Causes rising sea levels, coral bleaching, and lack of oxygen in water
What is Oceans Warming?
70% of U.S trade involves travel moving goods between countries.
What is transportation?