Water Cycle (a)
What process of water changes snow to rain?
What is melting.
The continual movement of water between the land, ocean and the air is called the ______________.
What is the water cycle
When water soaks into the soil.
Infiltration
What percentage of the Earth's natural water is actually useable?
What is less than 1%?
What is Shoaling?
An increase in wave height that happens when waves go from deep to shallow water.
When water flows over the Earth's surface and gathers in lakes, oceans, and streams.
What is runoff
Ice crystals/droplets form in
What is clouds.
The 3 different forms (phases) of water is found
What is solid, liquid and gas
How is a Tsunami created?
The sudden movement on the seabed displaces the water above it. Submarine earthquakes as two tectonic plates suddenly move towards each other and send seismic waves through water.
Name the four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
True or False:
The distance of the moon affects the height of tides.
True:
When the moon is closest to the Earth it produces above-average ranges in the tides.
When the moon is farthest from the Earth, it produces tidal ranges that are less than average.
The amount of Earth's surface covered by water.
What is about 70% or 2/3
The ocean conveyer belt is also knowen as the ....
Thermohaline circulation
What do we call a process that has no beginning or an end and goes on forever?
A cycle
True or False
A sound is a form of a wave.
True:
Sound is a form of energy that is caused by the vibration of matter. Sound is transmitted through waves
True or False:
Does the Sun affect the height of tides?
True:
The gravitational pull of the sun affects the height of the tide.
What percentage of saltwater and freshwater makeup our planet's water distribution?
What is 97% saltwater and 3% freshwater.
True/False: If you really needed to, you can drink salt water and it would be fine. It just tastes really bad.
What is False. (can somebody explain)
The evaporation of water through minute pores in the leaves of plants
What is transpiration
True or false:
A full moon cause a higher tide
False:
The cycle of the moon does not affect the height of the tide.
True or False:
Can a Tsunami be seen from the ocean?
False: Mariners at sea will not normally notice tsunamis as they pass beneath their hulls due to long wavelengths.
The transformation of water into gas is known as a
-----thermic reaction.
Endothermic.
(solid to liquid, liquid to gas, or solid to gas)
The transformation of gas into water is known as a
-----thermic reaction.
Exothermic
(liquid to solid, gas to liquid, or gas to solid)
True or False:
The sun and the moon cause a king tide.
True:
King tides occur when the orbits and alignment of the Earth, moon, and sun combine to produce the greatest tidal effects of the year.
What is the process of a Gas becoming a Solid?
Deposition is the change of state from a gas to a solid skipping liquid. Also knowen as resublimation.
What is the process of a solid becoming a gas?
Sublimation is a type of phase change that takes place when a solid turns directly into a gas, skipping the liquid phase.
True or False:
Do electromagnetic waves have troughs and crests?
True