Unit 2 - Earth's Water Practice Test

Definition: The upper boundary, or surface, of groundwater.

• groundwater

• watershed

• water table

• aquifer

The property that holds molecules of different substances together.

• cohesion

• polarity

• adhesion

• transpiration

Definition: The movement of water in the Earth system.

• water table

• convection current

• condensation

• water cycle

Definition: The energy needed to heat a substance by a particular amount.

• specific heat

• convection current

• precipitation

• transpiration

Definition: Streams, rivers, and the water that flows over land.

• transpiration

• groundwater

• runoff

• precipitation

Definition: Stream-like movements of water in the ocean.

• coriolis effect

• surface current

• convection current

• ocean current

Definition: Anything that has a positive charge at one end and negative charge at the other end has...

• cohesion

• solvent

• polarity

• adhesion

The process by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata.

• precipitation

• eutrophication

• groundwater

• transpiration

Definition: Bodies of water above Earth's surface.

• surface water

• watershed

• groundwater

• precipitation

Definition: The deflection of moving objects from a straight path due to Earth's rotation.

• Surface current

• Ocean current

• Convection current

• Coriolis effect