Water Cycle (a)
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
a cloud.
Water in the form of gas
water vapor
What is it called when water travels through oceans, the atmosphere and land over and over again.
the water cycle.
The manufactured materials and products that individual consumers and businesses buy
What are goods?
When governments AND individuals play a role in what is made, when its made, and how much is made,
What is a Mixed Economy?
When water changes from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
When water vapor changes to a liquid
condensation.
The is the process where a liquid changes directly into a gas.
What is Evaporation?
The work someone ore a company does for others are a form of business
What are services?
This is the measure economists have historically looked to to determine the health of an economy
What is the GDP?
When water moves from the atmosphere to the earth?
What is precipitation?
this is water that moves under the Earth's surface?
groundwater
What are rain, hail, sleet, and snow?
When the government decides what is made, how it is made, and who gets what...
What is a centrally planned economy?
Analysis looking at what an individual, company, government, etc. will sacrifice and gain by a specific action
What is cost-benefit analysis?
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process?
evapotranspiration
This is is the process water filtering through the soil to reach groundwater below
Infiltration
Animals contibute to the water cycle through this process?
respiration
When individuals decide what is made, how it is made, and how much is made
What is a Free Market Economy
The name for moisture in the soil and atmosphere,
What is "green water"
This occurs when a solid is directly converted into a gas?
What is sublimation?
Give 4 examples of a water reservoir
What are ocean, glaciers, polar ice caps, clouds, ground water, lakes, rivers?
These drive the water cycle
What is the sun? What is wind?
An idea that includes a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life's essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that protect Earth's life-supporting systems.
What is donut hole economics?
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Who is my favorite environmental science teacher?