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WorksheetsHydrosphere Vocab
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 2hrs 50mins
What is the hydrosphere?
All the water in the oceans and seas.
All of the water on Earth’s surface. (Lakes, seas, clouds, etc.)
All of the freshwater in lakes, ponds, etc.
What is a river basin?
The part of a river where it enters into another body of water.
An area of low land that is waterlogged most of the time.
A portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
What is infiltration?
When water wears away at land over a long period of time.
When water on top of the ground enters the soil.
When water flows from a certain point to the surface.
What is freshwater?
Water located underneath the Earth's surface.
Water containing less than 10,000 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids.
Water containing less than 1,000 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids.
What is saltwater?
Water that contains little to no quantities of salt.
Water that contains significant quantities of salt.
Salt that is extracted from seawater.
What is ice?
The plasma form of water.
The solid form of water.
The gas form of water.
What is a glacier?
Ice formed by accumulated snow over a long period of time.
Water vapor turned into ice crystals.
Partially melted ice.
What is an ice burg?
Ice formed by accumulated snow over a long period of time.
The solid form of water.
A large buoyant mass of ice detached from a glacier.
What is transpiration?
When moisture is moved throughout a plant and released from it as water vapor.
When water turns from a gas into a solid.
When water turns from a liquid into a gas.
What is surface water?
Water located only in the Earth's atmosphere.
Water located on the surface of the ocean.
Water located in the upper layers of the Earth. (Lakes, rivers, etc.)
What is ground water?
Water located in the ground.
Water that seeps down through the soil until it reaches rock.
Water mixed with earth.
What is an aquifer?
The underground layer of a water-bearing rock that is also permeable.
An area of land that filters out water.
Water in the plasma state.
What is a watershed?
An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common body of water.
A rock in which water is stored in.
An underground lake.
What is runoff?
Water produced from flooded rivers.
Water that has been through all forms of matter.
Water from rain, melted snow, etc, that flows over the surface of the land.
What is a universal solvent?
A substance that is dissolved by most chemicals.
A substance that dissolves most chemicals.
A very alkaline substance.
What is polarity?
.Something having an uneven distribution of electron density.
Something having an uneven distribution of proton density.
Something having an uneven distribution of neutron density.
What is cohesion?
A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to each other.
A property of water that makes its molecules unattracted to each other.
A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to other substances.
What is adhesion?
A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to each other.
A property of water that makes its molecules unattracted to other substances.
A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to other substances.
What is surface tension?
The property of a liquid that allows its surface to resist an external force due to cohesion.
The property of a liquid that allows its surface to resist an internal force due to adhesion.
The property of a liquid that allows its surface to resist an external force due to adhesion.
What is density?
The mass of something.
The weight of something.
The compactness of something.
What is specific heat?
The humidity of a certain area.
The amount of heat per unit mass needed to raise the temperature by one degree(Celsius).
The amount of heat needed to turn a liquid into a gas at a constant temperature and pressure.
What is the heat of vaporization?
The amount of heat needed to turn a liquid into a gas at a constant temperature and pressure.
The amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature by one degree(Celsius).
A liquid turning into a plasma.
