Hydrosphere And Atmosphere Flashcards
Water is stored in cracks and spaces between particles of soil and underground rocks
Groundwater
An underground layer of rock or soil that has connected horses or balls that water can pass through
Aquifier
The boundary between where freshwater ecosystems meet a saltwater ecosystem
Estuary
The process of carrying away soil or pieces of rock
Erosion
The dropping off of eroded soil and bits of rock
Deposition
The changing of a gas into a liquid as heeat is removed
Condensation
The slow changingW liquid into a gas below the boiling point
Evaporation
The process of removing salt from salt water in order to be used by living things
Dissemination
Water that falls from clouds to the ground in the form of ring,sleet hail or snow
Precipitation
The average weather pattern of a region overtime
Climate
The boundary between two air masses examples include cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts
Front
3 percent of earths water is ———-
Freshwater
Provides freshwater for homes, farms, and businesses
Running water
Is an artificial lake that stores water
Reservoir
70% of the Earth surface is
Salty
Name two of the most abundant minerals in the ocean water
Sodium and chloride
Is the largest percentage of dissolved minerals in the ocean water?
Sodium chloride or salt
Is a measure of how salty water is
Salinity
Fast running water ecosystems have more oxygen than slower, running water
Oxygen
Is an ecosystem that is lit during some or all of the year
Wetland
Wetlands include
Marshes bogs and swamps
Estuaries changed with the
Tide
Name the four ocean ecosystems
Intertidal zone, neritic zone, oceanic zone, andabyssal zone
Precipitation is often blank near large bodies of water
Higher
Is the constant movement of ocean water
Current
Is the powerful cause of erosion
Gravity
Fast moving rivers can wash away soil and rocks depositing them into a lake and ocean they built up cinnamon can form a called a blank
Delta
Where land in the body of water meet
Shoreline
Any area of short line made of materials deposited by Wave
Beach
Cause rocks to hit off of other rocks and can move sand and rock pieces to other locations, such as forming beaches, sand bars, and barrier Islands
Waves
The blank is the energy source of the water cycle
Son
What is the process of the water cycle?
Water evaporates, water vapor, transportation, condensation, clouds, and precipitation,
Precipitation that flows across the lands surface or false into rivers and streams
Runoff
Is a region that contributes water to a river or river system
Watershed
Is the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place
Weather
Is the force of air pushing on an area?
Air pressure
Is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity
Is the height above Earths surface and is measured from sea level
Altitude
Is a slow process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
Weathering
Form over the northern polar region
Cold, dry air masses
Form over the northern polar waters
Cold, moist air masses
Form over tropical land
Warm, dry air masses
Front brings stormy weather
Warm air masses
Front brings stormy weather
Cold
Fronts cause rainy weather to last for days
Stationary
