2017 Mod5

Question 1

Write out the definitions for the following terms:

A. Hydrosphere

Answer 1

The sum of all water on the planet

Question 2

B. Hydraulic cycle

Answer 2

The process by which water is continuously exchange between earths various water sources

Question 3

C. Transpiration

Answer 3

Evaporation of water from plants

Question 4

D. Condensation

Answer 4

The process by which a gas turns into a liquid

Question 5

E. Precipitation

Answer 5

What are falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Question 6

F. Distillation

Answer 6

Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture’s individual components

Question 7

G. Residence time

Answer 7

The average time a given particle will stay in a given system

Question 8

H. Salinity

Answer 8

A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water

Question 9

I. Firn

Answer 9

A dense pack of old snow

Question 10

J. Water table

Answer 10

The line between the water – salt water soil in the soil that is not saturated with water

Question 11

K. Percolation

Answer 11

The process by which water moves downward in the soil, towards the water table

Question 12

L. Adiabatic cooling

Answer 12

The cooling of gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy

Question 13

M. Cloud condensation nuclei

Answer 13

Small airborne particles upon which water vapor condenses to form clouds

Question 14

What kind of water makes up the majority of earth water supply

Answer 14

Saltwater

Question 15

What is the largest source of freshwater on the planet

Answer 15

Glaciers and ice Bergs

Question 16

What is the largest source of liquid freshwater on the earth

Answer 16

Groundwaters

Question 17

In the hydraulic cycle, name the ways water can enter the atmosphere

Answer 17

Evaporation and transportation

Question 18

When I raindrop hits the ground, name three ways I can eventually end up in a river

Answer 18

Runners, groundwater flow, and being re-evaluated or through transpiration back into a cloud to be precipitated into a river

Question 19

What process in the hydraulic cycle put soil moisture in to the atmosphere?

Answer 19

Transpiration

Question 20

In which body of water with the resident time be shorter: it quickly moving river or a lake that has no river outlets

Answer 20

The river

Question 21

What must a lake have an order for it to be a freshwater lake

Answer 21

And outlet other than evaporation

Question 22

Why is the salinity of the Ocean evidence that the earth is not billions of years old

Answer 22

The salt in the ocean would be much higher if it was billions of years old

Question 23

If you tasted ninth is the ice would it taste like fresh water or salt water

Answer 23

Salt water

Question 24

Where do icebergs come from?

Answer 24

Glaciers

Question 25

Where do Il glaciers come from

Answer 25

Heavy snow packs on mountains

Question 26

What is the term for the process by which a person of a glacier breaks off and thousand to the water

Answer 26

Calving

Question 27

The captain of a ship season iceberg and steers clear zits why is the cabin still worried about a collision

Answer 27

Did you can only see 10% of an iceberg

Question 28

Told you straight to areas of land close to one another in the first there are lots of trees in the second there are almost no cheese it off other than that the two areas since I don’t go they have the same kind of grass and experience the same kind of weather which one has deeper water tables explain

Answer 28

The first because the trees soak up water leaving the ground only moist not soaked

Question 29

If no energy is added to air, what will happen did the temperature when Eric air

Answer 29

It will cool

Question 30

Will fog with thicker in a smoky area or area free of smoke

Answer 30

Hey Smokey area

Question 31

What kind of cooling is responsible for the most confirmation

Answer 31

Condensation

Question 32

Hey bright student notes with a few mono vacations and refrigerator can become a hotbox he been going to warm instead

Answer 32

If you reverse the pipes the gas will warm up inside the box and cool down when outside

Question 33

What kind of water pollutant is the hardest to track back to its source

Answer 33

Groundwater