Vocab 1
This includes all the water found on our planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
Rain, snow, and hail are forms of this.
What is precipitation?
This is another name for the water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle?
97% of Earth's water is found in these.
What are the oceans?
Residence time in this is higher than anywhere else
What is the ocean?
This describes water vapor changing into liquid droplets in the air.
What is Condensation?
This is the flow of excess water over land surfaces.
What is surface runoff?
Rain, snow and hail are forms of this.
What is precipitation?
This is the main source of liquid freshwater on earth.
What is groundwater?
When water in polar regions freeze, it forms this.
What is sea ice?
When water vapor is released through plant leaves, it is called this.
What is transpiration?
This explains how water cycles continuously through Earth’s systems.
What is the hydrologic cycle? Also known as the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
Most of the earth's freshwater is found here.
What are glaciers?
Pieces of glaciers that float in oceans are called these
What are icebergs?
This technique used to purify water using evaporation and condensation.
What is distillation?
This is the name of what the salt concentration in ocean water is measured as.
What is salinity?
This is the process by which water vapor turns into liquid water.
What is Condensation?
Ocean water cannot be used for drinking or farming because it has too much of this.
What is salt?
These two bodies of water have a higher salt content than the ocean.
What are the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake?
This determines how long water stays in one place before moving.
What is residence time?
Water seeping down into soil and rock layers is known as this.
What is percolation?
This is the name for what happens when trees and plants give off water to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
When sea ice forms, pockets of this are formed.
What is brine?
Because groundwater can travel miles to a river or lake, when this occurs, it can be hard to track who is responsible.
What is groundwater pollution? Or pollution?