Semester 1 Final - 2021

The process of water changing from water vapor into tiny droplets to form clouds.

The process of liquid water changing into water vapor.

The process of ice evaporating into gas.

The process where water droplets are too heavy to stay in clouds and fall as rain, sleet, hail or snow.

The process of water soaking into the soil and in between rock layers.

The process where water flows/runs downhill from land surfaces into rivers and streams and then back to the ocean/

The water stored beneath the surface of the earth.

Floodplain is an area around a waterway that periodically floods with too much water.

Impermeable/impervious surfaces are solid surfaces that don't allow water to penetrate, forcing it to run off. Ex. Concrete

Allows water to sink into the soil to filter out pollutants and recharge the water table adding to the groundwater. Ex. Soil

The washing away of material from the bed or outsides curves of the river or stream.

The depositing of materials at the inside curve of a river or stream.

The study of the chemical composition of seawater and its interaction with the atmosphere and the sea floor.

The study of how marine organisms develop, relate to one another, adapt to their environment, and interact with it.​

The study of the ocean-atmosphere relationship that influences weather and climate, transmission of light and sound through water, and the ocean's interactions with its boundaries at the sea floor and the coast..

Study of  the ocean floor

and the processes that form its mountains, canyons, and valleys.

The hypothesis that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other.

A supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

The part of the earth's crust which underlies the ocean basins. Relatively thin and dense.

The outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere that makes up the planet's continents and continental shelves.

The formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.

The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.

Where plates move towards each other.

Where plates are moving away from each other.

Where plates are slding past each other.

An underwater mountain range

The shallow, submerged edge of the continent.

Long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the deepest parts of the ocean floor.

Broad flat areas of sediment-covered ocean floor found between the continental margins and the mid-ocean ridges

The bottom portion of the ocean.

The depth of the water where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur.

The depth of the water where there is little or no sunlight.

Part of the ocean floor from low tide to

200m down the edge of the continental

shelf; permanently submerged under water.

Part of the ocean floor between high and

low tide. Sometimes submerged.

Past of the ocean floor above the high tide

zone that is regularly splashed, but not

submerged by ocean water.

Bodies of flowing water such as rivers and streams.

Bodies of standing water such as lakes, ponds, and wetlands.

Slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries.

Open water too deep for rooted plants but has light.

Shallow area with rooted plants and waves – light through to bottom

Deep part of lake with no light

The surface film or "Skin" of a liquid caused by the attraction of the particles in the surface layer.

Water molecules are attracted to water molecules

Water molecules are attracted to other substances.

A reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide

The amount of free oxygen that is present in water.

The saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water

How much space an object or substance takes up (its volume) in relation to the amount of matter in that object or substance (its mass).

The ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid.

A liquid's resistance to flow due to internal friction.