UNIT ONE – HYDROSPHERE VOCABULARY
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Aquifer – layer of permeable rock or sediment with usable groundwater
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Bio-indicators – organisms that are used to monitor the health of an environment
Condensation – water changes from a gas to a liquid
Density – amount of mass in a unit of volume, d=m/v
Dissolved gases – in water: oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen
22. Precipitation – water coming from atmosphere to earth as rain, snow, or hail
23. Reservoir –a natural or artificial lake, storage pond or impoundment from a dam
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Evaporation – water changes from a liquid to a gas
Glaciers – large, slow-moving mass of ice
Ground water – water in the ground
Hydrosphere – all the water on Earth (hydro=water, sphere=shape of Earth)
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Dissolved oxygen – amount of oxygen dissolved in ocean
Estuary – semi-enclosed coastal body of water, sea and freshwater, filters
pollutants, breeding area
Hydrothermal vents – heat escaping from inside Earth, underwater, near
volcanoes, supports diverse life
Ice caps – ice mass that covers land area (ex. mountain peak)
Nitrates – nitrogen compounds involved in eutrophication – too many nitrates
leads to less oxygen which leads to fish death
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Non-point source pollution – pollution that comes from a wide area (ex. farm
fields)
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Over fishing – fisherman catch too many fish too quickly so the fish cannot
reproduce and the fish supply begins to run out
pH – measure of acidity/basicity of a solution, scale from 1-14, closer to 1 – acid,
closer to 14 – base, water is neutral at 7 (half way on scale)
Point Source pollution– a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or
light pollution
Polarity – molecule has a charge that pulls other molecules towards it
Pollutant run-off –don’t sink into ground, instead runs across Earth’s surface to
water
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Potability –water safe enough to be consumed by humans or used with low risk of
immediate or long term harm
which is used to store water
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River – freshwater watercourse that flows toward a larger body of water
River basin – aka drainage basin, water drains from a specific area down a river
Salinity – measure of the amount of salts dissolved in seawater
Sonar – Sound Navigation and Ranging, technique that uses sound to navigate
(ex. dolphin, bat)
28. Stewardship – being a good citizen (ex. pick up trash, recycle, protect
environment)
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Stream – flowing body of water, smaller than a river
Submersibles – underwater vessel
Surface tension –surface water sticks together like a film
Surface water – water at the Earth’s surface
Turbidity – cloudiness or haziness of a liquid caused by particles
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Vegetative Buffer – is an undeveloped area directly adjacent to a body of water
Water cycle – process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
Water quality –the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of water
Water treatment–industrial-scale processes that make water more acceptable for
an end-use, which may be drinking, industrial, or medical
Watershed – area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it
goes into the same place
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Universal solvent – water is able to dissolve many substances
Upwelling – current that brings deep, cold water to the ocean surface, mixes
nutrients also
Well – man-made holder of water that pumps water to a house, accesses water in
underground aquifer
UNIT ONE – HYDROSPHERE VOCABULARY
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Aquifer – layer of permeable rock or sediment with usable groundwater
Bio-indicators – organisms that are used to monitor the health of an environment
Condensation – water changes from a gas to a liquid
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Evaporation – water changes from a liquid to a gas
Glaciers – large, slow-moving mass of ice
Ground water – water in the ground
13.
14.
Ice caps – ice mass that covers land area (ex. mountain peak)
Nitrates – nitrogen compounds involved in eutrophication – too many nitrates
leads to less oxygen which leads to fish death
15.
Non-point source pollution – pollution that comes from a wide area (ex. farm
fields)
16.
Over fishing – fisherman catch too many fish too quickly so the fish cannot
reproduce and the fish supply begins to run out
17.
pH – measure of acidity/basicity of a solution, scale from 1-14, closer to 1 – acid,
closer to 14 – base, water is neutral at 7 (half way on scale)
18.
Point Source pollution– a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or
light pollution
Density – amount of mass in a unit of volume, d=m/v
Dissolved gases – in water: oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen
Dissolved oxygen – amount of oxygen dissolved in ocean
Estuary – semi-enclosed coastal body of water, sea and freshwater, filters
pollutants, breeding area
Hydrosphere – all the water on Earth (hydro=water, sphere=shape of Earth)
Hydrothermal vents – heat escaping from inside Earth, underwater, near
volcanoes, supports diverse life
19. Polarity – molecule has a charge that pulls other molecules towards it
20. Pollutant run-off –don’t sink into ground, instead runs across Earth’s surface to
water
21.
Potability –water safe enough to be consumed by humans or used with low risk of
immediate or long term harm
22. Precipitation – water coming from atmosphere to earth as rain, snow, or hail
23. Reservoir –a natural or artificial lake, storage pond or impoundment from a dam
which is used to store water
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
River – freshwater watercourse that flows toward a larger body of water
River basin – aka drainage basin, water drains from a specific area down a river
Salinity – measure of the amount of salts dissolved in seawater
Sonar – Sound Navigation and Ranging, technique that uses sound to navigate
(ex. dolphin, bat)
Stewardship – being a good citizen (ex. pick up trash, recycle, protect
environment)
Stream – flowing body of water, smaller than a river
Submersibles – underwater vessel
Surface tension –surface water sticks together like a film
Surface water – water at the Earth’s surface
Turbidity – cloudiness or haziness of a liquid caused by particles
Universal solvent – water is able to dissolve many substances
Upwelling – current that brings deep, cold water to the ocean surface, mixes
nutrients also
Vegetative Buffer – is an undeveloped area directly adjacent to a body of water
Water cycle – process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
Water quality –the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of water
Water treatment–industrial-scale processes that make water more acceptable for
an end-use, which may be drinking, industrial, or medical
40. Watershed – area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it
goes into the same place
41.
Well – man-made holder of water that pumps water to a house, accesses water in
underground aquifers