Oceanic Circulation
Ocean currents driven by temperature differences and salt.
What is Thermohaline circulation?
The two elements that make up a water molecule.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
The percentage of saltwater on Earth.
What is 97%?
Water that has moved through the soil and stored underground.
What is groundwater?
What is altitude?
The movement of cold deep water to the surface on coastlines driven by the coastal winds.
What is upwelling?
When water bonds to molecules other than water.
What is adhesion?
The location on Earth where the majority of freshwater is stored.
What are the polar ice caps?
Movement of water from the biosphere to the atmosphere and back into the biosphere again.
What is the water cycle?
This changes the average temperature and rainfall at a location on the globe.
What is latitude?
Large circulation of warm and cold ocean water caused by the winds.
What are gyres?
When a molecule has both a positive and negative end.
What is polar?
The main way that humans use freshwater on Earth.
What is agriculture?
Water vapor condenses in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
When mountains alter weather patterns creating a rainshadow on the leeward slope.
What is the orographic effect?
What direction do winds move the gyres in temperate latitudes, between 30 and 60 degrees. (Hint: The USA is located at temperate latitudes)
From West to East.
The property of water that allows water droplets to form. Where water sticks to other water molecules.
What is cohesion?
The primary source for freshwater used by humans for agriculture, manufacturing, and in homes.
What is groundwater?
The process of precipitation moving through the soil until it reaches the Earth's crust.
What is percolation?
This determines if an area receives weather from bodies of water or over land. It also determines if you are windward or leeward of mountain ranges.
What is direction of the wind?
Oceanic circulation balances the temperature of water which creates temperature changes that are NOT extreme. This is...
What is moderation?
The property that makes water stable. It does not want to change from solid to liquid or liquid to gas without a lot of energy.
What is high specific heat?
A large underground lake that stores groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
Water vapor released by plants into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
The four main factors which affect climate and weather.
Latitude, orographic effect, altitude, distance from water