Solid Water (Lesson 6)
Most of the Fresh water on Earth is found as this
What is Ice
The day-to-day environmental conditions in a specific place at a specific time
What is weather
This city, in Italy, floods regularly
What is Venice
water that seeps through soil and cracks in rocks
What is ground water
These are found near high latitudes and are permanently covered in ice
What are polar ice caps
Large areas of ice that accumulate in areas where the temperature is below freezing and the rate of accumulation of snow is higher than the rate of snow melt
What are glaciers
The average of the weather patterns in an area over an extended period of time
What is Climate
he depth at which soil or rock is completely saturated with water)
What is the water table
Because of its weight, much of its mass is found below the surface of the water.
Are Ice Bergs
Ice caps and glaciers do this when temperatures are above freezing
What is "decrease in size"
in areas that don’t have much moisture (e.g. a desert), the difference between the highest and lowest temperatures
What is very extreme
This percentage of the human brain is water
70%
This breeze: the sun shines on the land and the water, the land (lower heat capacity) heats up quickly and the water (higher heat capacity) heats up slowly
Sea Breeze
The measure of the amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of a substance by a certain amount
What is heat capacity
The freezing point of water, in Celsius
Land and Sea Breezes are examples of this type of current
What are convention currents
Very small pieces or parts
What are particles