Properties of Water
Water can exist naturally as a _____________, _______________ and _____________.
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
Water goes from a liquid to a gas through this process
Evaporation
96.5% of water is this
Pure Water
The hydrosphere is the total amount of:
Water
The rapid flow of water back to the ocean after a wave breaks on the shore
Undertow
What kind of molecule is water?
A Polar molecule
In the atmosphere water goes through this process
Condensation
The measure of dissolved salt in a given amount of liquid
Salinity
Whats a seamount?
An underwater mountain that sticks out of the abyssal plain
Narrow currents flowing away from the shore
Rip Current
What is a universal __________
Solvent
Water turns from a solid to a gas through this process
Sublimation
Three gases that dissolve in water
Carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen
The relationship between water that goes in and water that goes out on all the Earth:
The tides on Earth are affected by what?
The gravitational pull of the sun and the moon
Water's attraction to other molecules is called _____________.
Adhesion
The water cycle connects these two spheres
The hydrosphere and the atmosphere
Minerals in ocean water come from:
Rivers, Rocks on the ocean floor, Hydrothermal vents
Name three resources that come from the ocean
Deep currents
Because water has a strong ___________ it allows for things to float. This is the property of ____________ _____________
Cohesion, surface tension
The process of water from plants returning to the atmosphere
Transpiration
Because cold water sinks due to its density, it creates these kinds of currents
Thermohaline currents
The three zones of light in the ocean
Sunlight (euphotic)
Twilight (dysphotic)
Midnight (aphotic)
What are the three main parts of the continental margin
Continental shelf, Continental Slope, Continental Rise