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Hydrosphere And Atmosphere Flashcards

1
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Water is stored in cracks and spaces between particles of soil and underground rocks

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Groundwater

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2
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An underground layer of rock or soil that has connected horses or balls that water can pass through

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Aquifier

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3
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The boundary between where freshwater ecosystems meet a saltwater ecosystem

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Estuary

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4
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The process of carrying away soil or pieces of rock

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Erosion

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5
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The dropping off of eroded soil and bits of rock

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Deposition

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6
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The changing of a gas into a liquid as heeat is removed

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Condensation

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7
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The slow changingW liquid into a gas below the boiling point

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Evaporation

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8
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The process of removing salt from salt water in order to be used by living things

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Dissemination

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9
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Water that falls from clouds to the ground in the form of ring,sleet hail or snow

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Precipitation

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10
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The average weather pattern of a region overtime

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Climate

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11
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The boundary between two air masses examples include cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts

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Front

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12
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3 percent of earths water is ———-

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Freshwater

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13
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Provides freshwater for homes, farms, and businesses

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Running water

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14
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Is an artificial lake that stores water

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Reservoir

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15
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70% of the Earth surface is

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Salty

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16
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Name two of the most abundant minerals in the ocean water

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Sodium and chloride

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17
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Is the largest percentage of dissolved minerals in the ocean water?

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Sodium chloride or salt

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18
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Is a measure of how salty water is

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Salinity

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19
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Fast running water ecosystems have more oxygen than slower, running water

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Oxygen

20
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Is an ecosystem that is lit during some or all of the year

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Wetland

21
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Wetlands include

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Marshes bogs and swamps

22
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Estuaries changed with the

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Tide

23
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Name the four ocean ecosystems

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Intertidal zone, neritic zone, oceanic zone, andabyssal zone

24
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Precipitation is often blank near large bodies of water

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Higher

25
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Is the constant movement of ocean water

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Current

26
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Is the powerful cause of erosion

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Gravity

27
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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

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Delta

28
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Where land in the body of water meet

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Shoreline

29
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Any area of short line made of materials deposited by Wave

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Beach

30
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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

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Waves

31
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The blank is the energy source of the water cycle

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Son

32
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What is the process of the water cycle?

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Water evaporates, water vapor, transportation, condensation, clouds, and precipitation,

33
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Precipitation that flows across the lands surface or false into rivers and streams

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Runoff

34
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Is a region that contributes water to a river or river system

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Watershed

35
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Is the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place

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Weather

36
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Is the force of air pushing on an area?

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Air pressure

37
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Is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air

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Humidity

38
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Is the height above Earths surface and is measured from sea level

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Altitude

39
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Is a slow process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces

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Weathering

40
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Form over the northern polar region

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Cold, dry air masses

41
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Form over the northern polar waters

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Cold, moist air masses

42
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Form over tropical land

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Warm, dry air masses

43
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Front brings stormy weather

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Warm air masses

44
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Front brings stormy weather

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Cold

45
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Fronts cause rainy weather to last for days

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Stationary

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