E.W. AND ATMO. Unit 1
Streams, rivers, and the water that flows over land are types of this.
What is RUNOFF?
The name for the giant landmass that had all of the continents pushed together.
What is PANGAEA?
Humans are made up of over 70% of this item.
What is WATER?
The change of state from a gas to a liquid.
What is CONDENSATION?
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy.
What are earthquakes?
Because a water molecule has a negative end and a positive end, it displays...
What is POLARITY?
The process by which some of the water on land seeps into the ground.
What is INFILTRATION?
The process when molten rock inside Earth rises through the cracks in the ridges, cools, and forms new oceanic crust.
What is sea-floor spreading?
The energy needed to heat a substance by a particular amount is known as its...
What is SPECIFIC HEAT?
When solid water changes directly to water vapor without first becoming a liquid.
What is SUBLIMATION?
The return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformation.
What is Elastic Rebound?
Water's high___________ __________ means that a large amount of energy is required to change the water's temperature.
What is SPECIFIC HEAT?
The property that holds molecules of a substance together.
What is COHESION?
The pieces that the lithosphere is divided into.
What are tectonic plates?
The change of state from a liquid to a gas.
What is EVAPORATION?
What the water cycle transports.
What is ENERGY and MATTER?
Earthquakes happen at these three boundaries.
What is At Divergent Boundaries, at Convergent Boundaries, and At Transform Boundaries?
A liquid that dissolves substances.
What is a SOLVENT?
Water that is underground or beneath Earth's surface.
What is GROUNDWATER?
The three types of plate boundaries.
What are divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries?
The movement of water between the atmosphere, land, oceans, and living things.
What is THE WATER CYCLE?
The process by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
The name for a series of extremely long waves that can travel across the ocean at speeds of up to 800 km/h.
What is a tsunami?
When water molecules stick to the molecules of other substances the molecules are displaying.
What is ADHESION?
This happens to water once it reaches Earth's surface.
What is on land, water flows downhill. In the oceans, water flows in ocean currents?
Many scientists believe that this is the most important mechanism driving tectonic plate motion.
(when a denser plate pulls the rest of the plate with it?
What is Slab Pull?
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface from the clouds.
What is PRECIPITATION?
The reasons why the amount of water that flows in a river changes during the year.
What is because of changing amounts of rain and runoff that flow into the river?
The two kinds of Seismic Waves.
What are Body Waves and Surface Waves?
The reason why water has high cohesion.
What is its molecules are polar, so the oppositely charged ends of the molecules are attracted to one another?