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Vocabulary
Water basics
Freshwater
The water cycle
Oceans
100
Water that runs off the land into other bodies of water
What is run-off?
100
The part of the Earth that is made of water
What is the Hydrosphere?
100

A body of water surrounded by land

What is a lake?

100
Source of energy that drives the water cycle
What is the Sun?
100

A term that refers to the sustainable farming of marine life

What is aquaculture?

200
A mass of slowly moving ice formed on land?
What is a Glacier?
200

The amount of water that covers the Earth's surface

What is 70%?

200
A factory discharging waste directly into a river.

What is point source pollution?

200
Several forms of liquid water or ice that falls from clouds
What is Precipitation?
200

What is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is over 40,000 miles. 

What is the Mid Ocean Ridge?

300

A long, narrow landform that runs parallel to the mainland and is separated by a bay or lagoon

What are Barrier Islands?

300

The water people cannot use for practical purposes?

What is salt water?

300

Difference between potable and safe water

What is used for drinking and is safe for cleaning, cooking, and bathing?

300

Water in a gas state turning into a liquid, just like a sweating can of cold pop on a summer day

What is Condensation?

300

A place where the river meets the ocean and creates brackish water

What are estuaries?

400
A layer of sediment or rock through which water moves
What is Aquifer?
400

When a water molecule has a positive charge on its hydrogen ends and a negative charge on its oxygen end.

What is polarity?

400

Too many of these will take too much oxygen out of a lake and 'kill' the lake

What are algae blooms?

400
A way to balance out evaporation during the water cycle
What is condensation?
400

The Coriolis effect deflects ocean currents which direction in the Northern Hemisphere?

What is clockwise?
500
The action of water soaking into the ground to create groundwater
What is Infiltration?
500

A term that refers to all water systems and land connecting to each other

What is a watershed?

500

What are things lakes are used for? (list at least 3 reasons)

What is fishing, flood support, recreation, drinking water?

500

Water evaporating through leaves of plants

What is Transpiration?

500
The three categories scientist use to group ocean organisms.

What are benthos, nekton, and plankton?