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9th ENV Chapter 3-Section 3 OUTLINE

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HYDROSPHERE   The ______ includes all of the water on or near Earth's surface.  
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WATER CYCLE   The ___________ ________ is the continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.  
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EVAPORATION   _________ is the change of a substance from a liquid to a gas.  
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CONDENSATION   _________ is the change of state from a gas to liquid.  
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PRECIPATATION   ______________ is any form of water that falls to Earth's surface from the clouds, and includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail.  
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WORLD OCEANS   All of the oceans are joined in a single large interconnected body of water called the _______ _______.  
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PACIFIC   The largest ocean on Earth is the ____ Ocean with a surface area of about 155,557,00 km.  
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CHALLENGER DEEP   The deepest point on the ocean floor, the _______ ______, is found in the Pacific Ocean.  
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SURFACE CURRENT FLOW   Oceanographers often divide the Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific and South Pacific based on the direction of the _________ ________ in each half of the Pacific Ocean.  
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ATLANTIC   The second largest ocean on Earth is the _______ Ocean, and covers about half the area of the Pacific Ocean which is a surface area of about 76,630,00km.  
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INDIAN   The ________ Ocean is the third largest ocean on Earth with a surface area of 73,762,000km.  
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ARCTIC   The smallest ocean, the ______ Ocean, is unique because much of it's surface is covered by floating ice, called pack ice, which forms when either waves or wind drive together frozen seawater, known as sea ice, into a large mass.  
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SALINITY   _______ is a measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid.  
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CHLORINE SODIIUM   Most of the salt in the Ocean is sodium chloride, which is made up of the elements ________ and ________ although many other elements can be found in the ocean as well.  
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SURFACE 350 M DEEP   The _______ of the ocean is warmed by the sun, while the depths of the ocean, where sunlight never reaches, are very cold, just above freezing. Below the surface zone is the ___ _ ____ which is a layer about 300 to 700 m deep where the temperature falls rapidly.  
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ABSORB AND STORE ENERGY   One of the most important functions of the world ocean is to _____ ___ _____ ______ from sunlight which in turn regulates temperatures in Earth's atmosphere.  
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TEMPERATURE   If the ocean did not regulate atmospheric and surface temperatures, ________ would be to extreme for life to exist on Earth.  
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SURFACE CURRENTS   Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean are called _______.  
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WIND DRIVEN   Surface currents are ____ _______ and can be warm or cold water currents. However currents of warm water and currents of cold water do not readily mix with one another.  
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DEEP CURRENTS   ________ _________ are stream like movements of water that flow very slowly along the ocean floor  
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ANTARCTICA BOTTOM WATER   The denset and coldest ocean water is located off the coast of Antarctica and flows very slowly northward producing a deep current called the ______ ______ ______  
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FRESH WATER   ________ _________ is water that contains insignificant amounts of salts.  
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GROUND WATER   Rain and melting snow sink into the ground and run off the land. Most of this water trickles down through the ground and collects as ______________.  
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AQUIFER   A rock layer that stores and allows the flow of groundwater is called an ________-.  
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PHYTOPLANATON   Most of the algae float at the surface of the ocean and are known as ________  
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CLOSED   ________ systems are systems that cannot exchange matter or energy with its surroundings.  
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OPEN   _______ systems are systems that can exchange both matter and energy with itss surroundings.  
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