Water On Earth
The place where an organism lives and obtains all the things it needs to survive.
What is a habitat?
This force causes tiny streams to flow downhill.
What is gravity?
This material allows water and liquids to pass through it.
What is a permeable material?
Water's temperature does this the farther you go down in a body of water.
What is decreasing?
Movement of energy through a body of water.
What is a wave?
All living things need "this" in order to carry out their body processes.
What is water?
Streams and smaller rivers that feed into the main river are called this.
What are tributaries?
The top of a saturated zone is this.
What is a water table?
This term explains the distance from the surface of a body of water to a point below it.
What is depth?
Most waves form when "this" transmits energy and momentum to the wave.
What is wind?
This is the largest ocean and its area is greater than all the land on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A specialized lake that holds water for specifically human use is this.
What is a reservoir?
Water rises from pressure within an aquifer to create this.
What is an artesian well?
The total amount of dissolved salts in a source of water.
What is salinity?
The bottom point of a wave.
What is a trough?
This form of water makes up 30 percent of freshwater.
What is groundwater?
Nutrients build up in a lake through this process.
What is eutrophication?
This source uses 47.9% of the water in the U.S.
What are power plants?
The water in the ocean consists of these three things.
What are salinity, temperature, and depth?
This natural process shapes beaches
What is erosion?
The process from which water evaporates from leaves.
What is transpiration?
This is the largest river in China.
What is Yangtze?
This scientist studies and locates groundwater hot spots.
Who is Saskia Oosting?
Systematic sound navigation ranging.
What is sonar?
This effect of the Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents is called this.
What is the Coriolis effect?