The Water Cycle
Water that forms in clouds and falls to earth
What is Precipitation
All of the water found on the surface of Earth
What is Surface Water
Water that fills cracks and spaces in soil and rock layers
What is Groundwater
The part of the Ocean that absorbs energy from the sun
What is the Surface
The type of water that makes up roughly 3% of the Earth's hydrosphere
What is Freshwater
The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again
What is The Water Cycle
These start as a trickle of water that originates from a source(underground stream, runoff from rain, or melting snow or ice)
What are Rivers
A hole sunk into the earth to reach a supply of water
What is a Well
The total amount of dissolved salts in a sample of ocean water
What is Salinity
The type of water that makes up roughly 97% of Earth's hydrosphere
What is Salt Water
The process by which plants give off water vapor through their leaves
What is Transpiration
These form when water collects in hollows and low-lying areas
What are Ponds and Lakes
A layer of rock below the saturated zone that holds water
What is an Aquifer
These vary at the surface of the Ocean due to location and the seasons
What is Temperature
The largest ocean on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean
The process by which water vapor becomes liquid water
What is Condensation
Separates watersheds by a ridge of land
What is a Divide
The first step in which surface water makes its way underground
What is Infiltration
This has a higher density than freshwater
What is Saltwater
Landforms that contain less than 1% of Earth's fresh water
What are Lakes and Rivers
Without this life as we know it would not exist
What is Water
The land area that supplies water to a river system
What is a Watershed
The upper level of the saturated zone where groundwater is stored
What is the Water Table
3.8 kilometers deep on average
What is Ocean Depth
Where most of Earth's precipitation falls
What is the Ocean