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What is the Hydrologic cycle?
The process by which water is continuously exchanged between earth's various water sources.
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What is precipitation?
The process in the hydrologic cycle that is responsible for making glaciers.
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What is table salt?
Scientists call this substance sodium chloride.
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What are ice shelves?
The ends of glaciers that float in the ocean.
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What is calving?
The process of large chunks of ice breaking off a glacier.
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What is distillation?
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components
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What are evaporation and transpiration?
The processes by which water predominantly gets into the atmoshphere,
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What is salinity?
A measure of the mass of dissolved salt in a given mass of water.
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What is groundwater?
The largest source of liquid freshwater on the planet.
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What is 90%?
The amount of an iceberg that exists below the surface of the water.
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What is percolation?
The process by which water moves downward in the soil, toward the water table.
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What are evaporation and condensation?
The two hydrologic cycle processes that are responsible for the formation of clouds from water in the ocean.
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What is 71%?
Percentage of the earth covered by water including oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks and streams
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What is a river?
The residence time is the shortest here.
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What is cloud condensation nuclei?
Something a cloud needs to be formed.
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What is the water table?
The line between the water-saturated soil and the soil that is not saturated with water.
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What is the atmosphere?
The water source a molecule of water ends up in once it has gone through transpiration.
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What is the oceans?
Vast majority of the earth's water supply is contained here.
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What is sea ice?
This is the result of ocean water freezing.
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What is the water table?
The depth of this changes based on how much water is available.
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What is a Adiabatic cooling?
The cooling of a gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy.
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What is Adiabatic cooling?
The cause of the temperature change that allows for condensation which makes most clouds?
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What tells us that the earth is significantly younger than a few million years old?
The salinity of the oceans tells us this.
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What are glaciers?
Where icebergs come from.
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What is increase in temperature?
The temperature result if a sample of gas is compressed and nothing else is allowed to change.
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