Water cycle, waves, currents, tides, topography

What is the water cycle?

• When you have a shower

• The continuous process by which water passes through different states

• The process by which water evaporates and forms the clouds

• The rain

What is evaporation?

• When it's very hot

• When rivers return water to the oceans and sees

• When it rains

• When the Sun heats water and it becomes vapour

What is precipitation?

• The rain

• When you fall down a hill

• When the clouds cool and drops of water start to fall

• The rivers and lakes

The water vapour cools and condenses in the phase of...

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Collection

• Precipitation

The water absorbed into the ground is...

• Rain

• Clouds

• Groundwater

• Snow

Where is ocean water the densest.

• The surface
• The middle
• The bottom
• Lake Michigan

As you go deeper in the ocean, the water is colder and less salty.

• True
• False

Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the northern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.

• Gulf Stream
• Global Conveyor Belt
• Surface Current
• Gyre

Ocean water is more dense than fresh water at the same temperature due to differences in:  

• Wind patterns
•  Lifeforms
• Currents
• Salinity