The action of water returning to earth in the form of rain, snow, ect.
What is precipitation?
100
A body of freshwater where plants can root almost anywhere.
What is a pond?
100
The various moving pieces of the earths crust.
What are tectonic plates?
100
The area of the ocean that sunlight reaches.
What is the surface zone?
100
A large mass of either cold or warm air.
What is a front?
200
The process of water turning into water vapor and entering the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
200
A body of water too deep in some areas for plants to root.
What is lake?
200
Caused when two plates diverge at the bottem of the ocean.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
200
This is a habitat at the bottom of the ocean where bacteria exist because of super-heated water.
What is hydrothermal vent?
200
A storm formed between the Tropics.
What is a tropical storm?
300
The process in the water cycle that forms clouds.
What is condensation?
300
The increase of nutrients in a lake or pond
What is eutrophication?
300
Located where plates converge in the ocean. Deep.
What is a oceanic trench?
300
This near-shore environment is found in COLD climates.
What is a kelp forest?
300
The names of the two lines marking the tropical zones on the earth.
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
It is the driving force behind the water cycle.
What is the sun?
400
During the summer, the warm surface water of a lake does not mix with the cooler water underneath it. In the fall, through, this warm layer cools and sinks.
What is turnover?
400
Located on the continental shelf where erosion has created a depression.
What is a submarine canyon?
400
The word that describes the saltiness of water.
What is salinity?
400
A company is draining toxic waste into the ocean from a pipe on the coast.
What is Point-Source Pollution?
500
The process of water going through the ground and entering aquifers or groundwater, being filtered in the process.
What is infilitration?
500
This is how most lakes and ponds were formed.
What is accumulation due to depressions in the earth?
500
These are created at transform boudaries for plates.
What is an earthquake?
500
Mangrove Forests and Saltwater Marshes are both _____________.