Hydrosphere And Atmosphere

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Groundwater

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Aquifier

Question 3

The boundary between where freshwater ecosystems meet a saltwater ecosystem

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Estuary

Question 4

The process of carrying away soil or pieces of rock

Answer 4

Erosion

Question 5

The dropping off of eroded soil and bits of rock

Answer 5

Deposition

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Condensation

Question 7

The slow changingW liquid into a gas below the boiling point

Answer 7

Evaporation

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Dissemination

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Precipitation

Question 10

The average weather pattern of a region overtime

Answer 10

Climate

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Front

Question 12

3 percent of earths water is ———-

Answer 12

Freshwater

Question 13

Provides freshwater for homes, farms, and businesses

Answer 13

Running water

Question 14

Is an artificial lake that stores water

Answer 14

Reservoir

Question 15

70% of the Earth surface is

Answer 15

Salty

Question 16

Name two of the most abundant minerals in the ocean water

Answer 16

Sodium and chloride

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Sodium chloride or salt

Question 18

Is a measure of how salty water is

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Salinity

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Oxygen

Question 20

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

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Wetland

Question 21

Wetlands include

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Marshes bogs and swamps

Question 22

Estuaries changed with the

Answer 22

Tide

Question 23

Name the four ocean ecosystems

Answer 23

Intertidal zone, neritic zone, oceanic zone, andabyssal zone

Question 24

Precipitation is often blank near large bodies of water

Answer 24

Higher

Question 25

Is the constant movement of ocean water

Answer 25

Current

Question 26

Is the powerful cause of erosion

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Gravity

Question 27

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

Question 28

Where land in the body of water meet

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Shoreline

Question 29

Any area of short line made of materials deposited by Wave

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Beach

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Waves

Question 31

The blank is the energy source of the water cycle

Answer 31

Son

Question 32

What is the process of the water cycle?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

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Runoff

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Watershed

Question 35

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

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Weather

Question 36

Is the force of air pushing on an area?

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Air pressure

Question 37

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

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Humidity

Question 38

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

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Altitude

Question 39

Is a slow process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces

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Weathering

Question 40

Form over the northern polar region

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Cold, dry air masses

Question 41

Form over the northern polar waters

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Cold, moist air masses

Question 42

Form over tropical land

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Warm, dry air masses

Question 43

Front brings stormy weather

Answer 43

Warm air masses

Question 44

Front brings stormy weather

Answer 44

Cold

Question 45

Fronts cause rainy weather to last for days

Answer 45

Stationary