Science Chapter 10 - Review Flashcards
What are the two types of liquid water? name the critical data points from their paragraphs.
There are two types of liquid water…
Surface water is mainly found in oceans but is commonly found in lakes, ponds, wetlands, and other sources in locations such as Canada
Underground water is a third of the world’s fresh water. When water soaks into the ground, it flows downwards until it reaches a point It cannot pass called the groundwater zone. some of this water is trapped at the highest layer of the groundwater zone called the water table. sometimes water can even seep into rocks, and form a reservoir in this rock called a aquifer. eventually, all this water manages to find its way out of the ground and into rivers, ponds, or even the ocean
What is solid water?
all frozen water on earth is fresh. This is because of two points. Salt water requires a higher temperature to freeze than fresh water. When the salt water does freeze, the salt doesn’t follow and is removed from that now piece of ice
What are the two forms of solid water?
there are two common forms of solid water…
Mountain glaciers are found in mountainous regions. because it’s always cold in their locations, the snow doesn’t melt and packs together with newer snow created. overtime, this packed snow becomes so packed, that it’s a glacier.
Ice sheets are large glaciers that cover large amounts of land. two exist in the world today. they form the same as glaciers. when one of these sheets reaches water, it floats atop it and is now called an ice shelf.
What is gaseous water?
gaseous water is created when the liquid evaporates and becomes water vapor. this vapor is the cause of humid summers and cold winters. This water vapor eventually rises and turns into the clouds and reach the atmosphere as all vapour does
What is the water cycle?
Jesus is the answer. Now mass, what’s your answer…?
What is a watershed
A watershed is an area of land where all the water eventually drains into one main water body, watersheds are easily affected. North America has only five of these. Large areas of land create divides that decide where water flows. one of these divides is the rocky mountains
What is water’s influence on weather and climate?
If you look at victoria and Timmis, their temperatures are very different. Vicotria is much cooler and is near a body of water and Timmis is not near a body fo water and has bigger ranges in temperatures. The water is the culprit for this. Large bodies of water have a moderating effect on the temperature of areas nearby itself.
Explain how water moderates air temperature
When the sun’s heat reaches the earth, water absorbs it differently from land. Land and water have different heat capacities, with water having a higher capacity. This means it takes longer for water to heat up and longer to release this heat. In the day, water is still cold because the heat hasn’t filled its capacity. In night, the heat from the previous hours of sunlight is still in the body of water of the high amount of heat absorbed by the water
What are microclimates
Microclimates are small localized climate variations that differ from the larger climate area around them. This area is like a greenhouse and is commonly utilized by farmers as it provides a longer crop growth time and body of water provide lots of moisture so it helps with crops as well
Explain the two types of periods that Earth can be in and how they affect the planet and global warming.
Over the 4.5 billion years of earth’s existence, it has gone through many glacial and interglacial periods. glacial periods are when the earth is covered with cold climates and ice. it is also when glaciers grow and expand. An Interhglacier period is when the earth’s climate is similar to today with heat and cool. This is also where glaciers should be expanding and contracting. This issue is that global warming makes glaciers contract but not expand.
What are some factors that affect mountain glaciers and ice sheets?
Due to glaciers forming from constant cold temperatures, global warming causes glaciers to constantly melt and precipitation patterns to change such as it begins to rain on mountains
