Warm-up - Hydrosphere Practice Vocabulary Quiz - March 11, 2019

Hydrosphere

• all of earth's life

• all of earth's water

• all of earth's trees

• all of earth's animals

The property of water having a slightly negative end and a slightly positive end

• salinity

• cohesion

• polarity

• adhesion

When water soaks into the soil

• transpiration

• surface water

• estuaries

• infiltration

Describes the condition of the water

• water quality

• stewardship

• estuaries

• turbidity

An ocean community of organisms and the non-living factors that affect them

• dissolved oxygen

• phosphates

• marine ecosystems

• benthos

The movement of cold, nutrient rich waters from the deep ocean into shallow areas.

• herbicides

• adhesion

• upwelling

• plankton

The concentration of salts (solids) in a liquid such as water

• estuaries

• salinity

• cohesion

• polarity

A measure of the acidity or basicity or a solution, from 1-14, 7 is neutral

• nitrates

• eutrophication

• pH

• phosphates

The measure of cloudiness in water, as the result of suspended particles or phytoplankton

• Salinity

• Eutrophication

• Water quality

• Turbidity

Introduction of wastes to the environment, such as sewage and chemicals that can damage organisms

• pollution

• pollutant

• sewage

• turbidity