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Water Vocabulary 6
Vocabulary words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Atmosphere | the outer layer of gases of a large body in space such as a planet or star: the mixture of gases that surrounds the solid earth |
| Condensation | the process in which water vapor (a gas) in the air turns into liquid water |
| Dew | tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night |
| Evaporation | The process in which liquid water becomes water vapor (a gas) |
| Permeable | allowing the passage of water |
| Precipitation | The process in which water (in the form of rain, snow, sleet, hail) |
| Salinity | A measure of the amount of dissolved salt contained in water |
| Oceans | a very large expanse of sea in particular each of the main area into the sea is divided (geography) |
| Saturation | a condition of the atmosphere in which the rates of evaporation and condensation are equal |
| Runoff | Rain , snow or other water that flows into surface streams and canals |
| Transpiration | the loss of water vapor through plant leaves |
| Groundwater | water that collects and is stored underground |
| Water cycle | The continual movement of water from Earth's atmosphere to Earth's surface and back again |
| Water table | the highest part in the ground that is saturated or completely filled with water |
| Accumulation | The process in which water pools in large bodies like oceans, seas and lakes |
| Drainage basin | an area of land in which water drains into a stream system and the borders of drainage basins are called divides |
| Aquifer | an underground layer of permeable rock that contains water |
| Acid Rain | rain that has become more acidic than normal due to pollution |
| Infiltration | the ability of a liquid to pass through the soil |
| Artesian well | a well in which pressurized water flows upward to the surface |
| Sonar | A system hat uses sound waves to measure distances and locate objects |
| Abyssal plain | a wide flat area of the ocean floor that is covered with a thick layer of sediment |
| Seamounts | Underwater mountains |
| Volcanic island | Underwater volcanoes tall enough to reach above the surface |
| Continental shelf | The flat or gradually sloping land that extends underwater from the edge of a continent to a continental slope |
| Continental slope | land that drops down steeply at the edge of a continental shelf |
| Topography | all natural and human- made surface features of a particular area |
| Ocean Trenches | narrow steep sided clefts in the ocean floor |
| Crest | Highest point of a wave |
| Ocean current | a mass of moving ocean water |
| Upwelling | the vertical movement of deep water up to the surface |
| Density | A property of matter representing mass per volume |
| Downwelilng | the movement of water from the surface to greater depths |
| Ell Nino | A global weather event that may last for 12 to 18 months and is changes in air and water movements |
| Longshore current | the overall direction and movement of water as waves strike the shore at an angle |
| Mid-ocean ridge | A chain of mountains that run through an ocean basin |
| Neap tide | a tide of small range occurring during the first and third quarter phases of the moon |
| Rip current | Narrow streams of water that break through sandbars and drain rapidly back to sea |
| Spring tide | a tide of large range occurring during the new and full moons, resulting in an extra high bulge and an extra low tide |
| Tide | The rise and fall in sea level |
| Trough | Lowest point of a wave |
| Wave height | Vertical distance between the crest and the trough |
| Wave length | Horizontal distance between two crests or two troughs |
| Waves | Rhythmic movement that carries energy through matter or space; in oceans, waves move through seawater |
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