Quiz 3-C

all of Earth's water

• hydrosphere

• ground water

• humidity

• aquifer

layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock that hold and move ground water

• aquifer

• humidity

• hydrosphere

• phytoplankton

water vapor in the air

• hydrosphere

• aquifer

• humidity

• phytoplankton

tiny ocean organisms that carry on photosynthesis

• phytoplankton

• aquifer

• humidity

• ground water

water stored beneath the surface of the earth

• ground water

• aquifer

• hydrosphere

• humidity

Water falls to earth as _____1_____ and returns to the sky through transpiration and _____2_____.

_____3_____ happens when water vapor cools and changes back to a liquid.

An ice sheet is frozen _____4_____ water, but sea ice is frozen salt water from the _____5_____.

The frozen fresh water covering Antarctica is an _____6_____, but when and ice sheet reaches the ocean and floats, it is called an _____7_____.

Floating pieces of glaciers, ice sheets, or ice shelves are called _____8_____.