Water on Earth
This is where most of Earth's total water supply is found.
What is the ocean?
This is the area that supplies water to a system.
What is a watershed?
This is the top of the saturated zone.
What is the water table?
The reason ocean water is denser than fresh water at the same temperature?
What is higher salinity?
This makes winds and currents move in curved paths.
What is the Coriolis effect?
What is transpiration?
This is what separated two watersheds.
This is the type of material where water can flow through pores and cracks.
What is permeable?
Two properties of ocean water that affect the depth are these characteristics.
What is temperature and pressure?
This causes surface currents.
What is wind?
Most of Earth's fresh water is in this form.
What is frozen?
The streams and small rivers that feed into the main river.
What is a tributary?
People can obtain groundwater by drilling into this area.
What is an aquifer?
This is a deep canyon on the ocean floor.
What is a trench?
This causes deep currents.
What are the differences in density?
This is the amount of Earth's total supply of fresh water that is in ice.
What is 2/3?
This is the similarity between lakes and ponds.
What is both are still?
This is the way underground water moves.
What is it trickles down between particle of soil and cracks and spaces in layers of rock?
What is decreases?
This event brings colder and more normal winters and greater precipitation to the Pacific Northwest and the north-central United States.
What is La Nina?
This is the total amount of fresh water on earth.
What is three percent?
This is the process where nutrients build up over time.
What is eutrophication?
Water that rises on its own because of pressure within an aquifer.
What is an artesian well?
This varies with location and season in the ocean?
What is the temperature?
As a wave nears shore, the wave height increases and the wavelength does this.
What is decreases?