wgu mod 12 science Word Scramble
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Pacific Ocean (Earth's largest, deepest, and oldest); Atlantic Ocean (coldest and saltiest); Indian Ocean (smallest) - all connected | the world's oceans |
streams of water tha tmove relative to the larger ocean | currents and tides |
are usually created by wind pushing across the water's surface, moving the water along with it | surface currents |
are the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tital forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans | tides |
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run off, percolation | water cycle |
the general pattern of weather that occurs in a region over a period of years | climate |
state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place - atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind, precipitation, cloudiness, and humidity | weather |
climatically and geographically defined areas of ecologically similar climatic conditions such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, and are often referred to as ecosystems (terrestrial, freshwater, marine) | biomes |
convection currents occur within the geosphere - plate tectonics, the atmosphere - wind, and the hydrosphere - ocean currents | convection currents |
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