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Hydrosphere Flashcards

0
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What do you call two different molecules being sticked to one another?

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Adhesion

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1
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What do you call molecules sticked to another same molecule?

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Cohesion

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2
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It is caused by the strong cohesion between water molecules.

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Surface Tension

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3
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It is due to an interplay of the forces of adhesion and surface tension.

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Capillarity

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4
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What do you call the concave and convex part of the tube?

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Meniscus

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5
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What is the plural of meniscus?

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Menisci

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6
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Which part of the meniscus is used to read the liquid level?

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Lower Meniscus

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7
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How many percentage of the total water is the fresh groundwater?

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0.76%

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8
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How much salt does brine water have?

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50 ppt

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9
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How much salt does saline water have?

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30 ppt

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10
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How much salt does brackish water have?

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.5 ppt

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11
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How much salt does freshwater have?

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0-0.4 ppt

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12
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It is the saltiness or dissolved salt content.

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Salinity

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13
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It is expensive to remove from water and is an important factor in water use.

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Salt

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14
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How is water distributed to different places of the earth?

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Through the water cycle

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15
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What are the different processes involved in the water cycle?

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Evaporation, condensation, transpiration, precipitation, sublimation

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16
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It is the process of liquid becoming gas.

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Evaporation

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17
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It is how water returns to the earth.

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Precipitation

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18
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It is the process of water coming from plants.

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Transpiration

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19
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It is the process in which solid becoming gas.

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Sublimation

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20
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It is the process in which gas becomes liquid.

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Condensation

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21
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It is when water flows vertically through the soil and rocks (gravity).

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Percolation

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22
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It is the movement of water in solid, liquid or vapor state through the atmosphere.

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Advection

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23
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It is the variety of ways by which water moves across the land. It includes both surface and channel runoff.

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Runoff

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24
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What is the biggest body of water?

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Ocean

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25
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How many oceans are there?

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4 or 5

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26
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It is the zone wherein light reaches.

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Photic zone

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27
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It is the zone where light does not reach.

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Aphotic zone

28
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It is the place where people can walk on. A portion of this is the shore.

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Continental shelf

29
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It is the abrupt drop.

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Continental slope

30
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It is the gentle slope.

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Continental rise

31
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It is the surface of the ocean floor.

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Abyssal plain

32
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It is known as the seashore.

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Intertidal zone

33
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What is another name for intertidal zone?

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Littoral zone

34
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It is the edge of shelf or coastal waters.

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Neritic zone

35
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It is the open ocean or deepest part.

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Pelagic zone

36
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It is the ocean floor.

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Benthic

37
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What is the darkest depth of the ocean?

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Hadalpelagic zone

38
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What is the midnight zone?

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Bathypelagic

39
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It is the twilight zone.

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Mesopelagic zone

40
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It is the abyss.

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Abyssopelagic

41
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It is the sunlight zone.

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Epipelagic

42
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It is a large body of saline water that surrounds the land.

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Sea

43
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What is the boundary line of the sea and ocean?

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End of the continental slope

44
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It is a body of water surrounded by land on 3 sides.

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Bay

45
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It is the land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.

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Headland

46
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It is a larger bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea.

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Gulf

47
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It is a narrow, channel that connects two larger bodies of water.

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Strait

48
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It is located beneath the earth’s surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Groundwater

49
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What do you call the area that is a unit of rock or a deposit?

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Aquifer

50
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It is the upper surface of an area filled with groundwater, separating two zones.

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Water table

51
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It is the zone above the water table.

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Vadose zone or zone of aeration

52
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It is the zone below the water table.

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Phreatic zone or zone of saturation

53
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It is a site where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface and it is where water flows to the surface.

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Spring

54
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They are flowing bodies of water.

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Rivers

55
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What do you call the start of a river?

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Source

56
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Another name for source.

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Headwater

57
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A river that flows into a main stem river or a lake.

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Tributary

58
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Branches off and flows away fron a main stream channel.

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Distributary

59
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It is the mouth of the river or landforms.

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Delta

60
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It is an area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water.

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Watershed

61
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Meeting of two or more bodies of water

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Confluence

62
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It is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river.

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Meander

63
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It is a cutt-off meander

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Oxbow lake

64
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He classified rivers based on their age.

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William Davis

65
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It is a steep gradient that has very few tributaries and flows quickly.

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Youthful

66
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It is less steeper and flows more slowly. It has many tributaries.

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Mature

67
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It is a low gradient and low erosive energy.

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