VOCABULARY 1
VOCABULARY 2
SYSTEMS
FACTS 1
FACTS 2
100
Ocean currents do to form consisnent, circular patterns.
What is gyres.
100
the top of the wave.
What is the crest.
100
a large stream of water of water flowing in a definite channel into another stream.
What is rivers.
100
they store a huge amount of fresh water as snow and ice.
What is glaciers
100
0.001%
What is gaseous fresh water.
200
the movement of a fluid, often in a circular pattern, caused by diiferences in temperature and density.
What is convection current.
200
the bottom of the wave.
What is the trough.
200
the movement of water as it changes states around Earth.
What is water cycle?
200
Tides are high and low water levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun and the spinning of the earth.
What is tides?
200
97.2%
What is salt water.
300
water of another fliud moving in a srecific direction.
What is a current.
300
the distance between the crests.
What is the wavelegth.
300
the upper level of the saturated zone.
What is water table?
300
In highlands from springs or as streams of glacier meltwater.
What do most rivers begin in?
300
0.6%
What is liquid fresh water.
400
an area surrounded by high land, in which all water runs to a common destination.
What is watershed.
400
some of the largest most devestating waves known.
What is Tnunamis.
400
an underwater volcano.
What is saemount.
400
the upward movement of water through soil due to the attraction of water molicuels to soil particles.
What is capilary action?
400
2.2%
What is solid fresh water
500
a relatively flat area next to a rivers banks that experinces perodic flooding.
What isa flood plain.
500
mixing of the upper and lower levelsof a body of water, usually caused by convection currents.
What is overturn.
500
the water must be treated before it can be safley returned to the enviorment.
What is water treament and disposal?
500
Water flowing along the surface of the ground.
What is run off?
500
it is about 3.5%
What is the salinity average concentration of the salt of the ocean water?