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Water cycle
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sublimation | the process where a solid turns directly into a gas, completely skipping the liquid stage |
| evaporation | the process where a liquid turns into a gas (vapor) at its surface |
| deposition | Deposition is the process where water vapor (gas) changes directly into ice (solid) without becoming liquid water first. |
| Coriolis effect | the curving path that moving water (ocean currents) and air (wind) take because the Earth is rotating underneath them |
| Convection current | a continuous, circular loop of movement that occurs in a fluid (liquid or gas) when it is heated unevenly |
| transpiration | the process where plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through tiny pores in their leaves |
| condensation | the process where water vapor (an invisible gas) cools down and turns back into liquid water droplets |
| runoff | Water that flows downhill as a result of melting snow or rain |
| Surface currents vs Deep currents | Surface currents are fast-moving, wind-driven streams in the top 400 meters of the ocean, while deep currents are slow, dense, cold-water movements driven by density differences (temperature/salinity) at great depths |
| Precipitation | any form of water—liquid or solid—that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface |
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