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Apologia Mod 5 vocab
Apologia Module 5 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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The sum of all water on a planet | Hydrosphere |
The process by which water is continuously exchanged between earth's various water sources | Hydrologic cycle |
Evaporation of water from plants | Transpiration |
Water falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail | Precipitation |
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components | Distillation |
The average time a given particle will stay in a given system | Residence time |
A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water | Salinity |
A dence, icy pack of old snow | Firn |
The line between the water-saturated soil and the soil that is not saturated with water | Water table |
The process by which water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table | Percolation |
The cooling of a gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy | Adiabatic cooling |
Small airborne particles upon which water vapor condenses to form clouds | Cloud condensation nuclei |