One continuous body of water covering the majority of our planet.
What is the ocean?
100
The land area that water flows across or under on its way to a particular river.
What is a River Basin?
100
When water is subject to heat, transforming it into a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
97% of the water in the hydrosphere
What percentage of water in the hydrosphere is in the ocean?
200
20% of freshwater is in it
What percent of freshwater is in groundwater
200
They are subject to rapid change in temperature and salinity
What are tide pools?
200
A large channel of water, usually flowing to the sea.
What is an river?
200
Waters attraction to other water molecules, gives water high surface tension.
What is cohesion?
300
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
What is precipitation?
300
79% of earths freshwater is in them
What percent of earths freshwater is in glaciers?
300
from the low tide line to the high tide line.
What is the intertidal zone
300
97% percent of the water in the Hydrosphere
What is the ocean?
300
The boiling point of water.
What is 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
400
The process by which water travels through different parts of the hydrosphere
What is the water cycle
400
only 1% of freshwater on earth
What percent of freshwater is accessible to humans
400
The region of open sea beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the pelagic zone?
400
A mountain ridge that separates one watershed or river basin from the next.
What is a divide?
400
When water will climb up a surface due to its adhesiveness towards it.
What is capillary action?
500
The alternate term for "The Water Cycle"
What is "The Hydrologic Cycle"?
500
The percent of freshwater that accounts for surface lakes, rivers, etc.
What is 0.3%?
500
Some sunlight reaches this zone, but not enough for photosynthesis to occur.
What is the Dysphotic Zone?
500
A semi-enclosed area where freshwater from a river meets salty water from the sea.
What is an estuary?
500
Salt (NA+ CL-) dissolves in water. Water molecules surround the salt molecules and separate the NA+ from the CL- by forming hydration shells around those two individual ions. This makes water what?