Hydrosphere

Question 0

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

Answer 0

Adhesion

Question 1

What do you call molecules sticked to another same molecule?

Answer 1

Cohesion

Question 2

It is caused by the strong cohesion between water molecules.

Answer 2

Surface Tension

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Capillarity

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Meniscus

Question 5

What is the plural of meniscus?

Answer 5

Menisci

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Lower Meniscus

Question 7

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

Answer 7

0.76%

Question 8

How much salt does brine water have?

Answer 8

50 ppt

Question 9

How much salt does saline water have?

Answer 9

30 ppt

Question 10

How much salt does brackish water have?

Answer 10

.5 ppt

Question 11

How much salt does freshwater have?

Answer 11

0-0.4 ppt

Question 12

It is the saltiness or dissolved salt content.

Answer 12

Salinity

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Salt

Question 14

How is water distributed to different places of the earth?

Answer 14

Through the water cycle

Question 15

What are the different processes involved in the water cycle?

Answer 15

Evaporation, condensation, transpiration, precipitation, sublimation

Question 16

It is the process of liquid becoming gas.

Answer 16

Evaporation

Question 17

It is how water returns to the earth.

Answer 17

Precipitation

Question 18

It is the process of water coming from plants.

Answer 18

Transpiration

Question 19

It is the process in which solid becoming gas.

Answer 19

Sublimation

Question 20

It is the process in which gas becomes liquid.

Answer 20

Condensation

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Percolation

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Advection

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Runoff

Question 24

What is the biggest body of water?

Answer 24

Ocean

Question 25

How many oceans are there?

Answer 25

4 or 5

Question 26

It is the zone wherein light reaches.

Answer 26

Photic zone

Question 27

It is the zone where light does not reach.

Answer 27

Aphotic zone

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Continental shelf

Question 29

It is the abrupt drop.

Answer 29

Continental slope

Question 30

It is the gentle slope.

Answer 30

Continental rise

Question 31

It is the surface of the ocean floor.

Answer 31

Abyssal plain

Question 32

It is known as the seashore.

Answer 32

Intertidal zone

Question 33

What is another name for intertidal zone?

Answer 33

Littoral zone

Question 34

It is the edge of shelf or coastal waters.

Answer 34

Neritic zone

Question 35

It is the open ocean or deepest part.

Answer 35

Pelagic zone

Question 36

It is the ocean floor.

Answer 36

Benthic

Question 37

What is the darkest depth of the ocean?

Answer 37

Hadalpelagic zone

Question 38

What is the midnight zone?

Answer 38

Bathypelagic

Question 39

It is the twilight zone.

Answer 39

Mesopelagic zone

Question 40

It is the abyss.

Answer 40

Abyssopelagic

Question 41

It is the sunlight zone.

Answer 41

Epipelagic

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Sea

Question 43

What is the boundary line of the sea and ocean?

Answer 43

End of the continental slope

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Bay

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Headland

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Gulf

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Strait

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Groundwater

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Aquifer

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Water table

Question 51

It is the zone above the water table.

Answer 51

Vadose zone or zone of aeration

Question 52

It is the zone below the water table.

Answer 52

Phreatic zone or zone of saturation

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Spring

Question 54

They are flowing bodies of water.

Answer 54

Rivers

Question 55

What do you call the start of a river?

Answer 55

Source

Question 56

Another name for source.

Answer 56

Headwater

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Tributary

Question 58

Branches off and flows away fron a main stream channel.

Answer 58

Distributary

Question 59

It is the mouth of the river or landforms.

Answer 59

Delta

Question 60

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.

Answer 60

Watershed

Question 61

Meeting of two or more bodies of water

Answer 61

Confluence

Question 62

It is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river.

Answer 62

Meander

Question 63

It is a cutt-off meander

Answer 63

Oxbow lake

Question 64

He classified rivers based on their age.

Answer 64

William Davis

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Youthful

Question 66

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

Answer 66

Mature

Question 67

It is a low gradient and low erosive energy.

Answer 67

Old