Hydrosphere Chapter 11

1. A giant ocean current that forms an oval.
2. The effect that causes surface currents in the ocean to form ovals.
5. A floating sheet of ice that is permanently attached to land
7. In a surface wave, water moves in a ________.
8. The process of which ice breaks from a glacier and falls into the water producing an iceberg.
10. A slowly moving mass of ice caused by the accumulation of snow.
12. The ________, which is the most important, and the sun are the two bodies that influence the Earth’s tides.
13. Matthew Maury believed if the _________ mentions anything related to science, it is accurate.
16. A quantity that describes the amount of water vapor in the air.
18. The level below which the soil is saturated with water.
19. A permanent layer of ice covering a very large area of land.

1. Water below the water table.
3. Mass of trash that is stuck in a gyre (rotating ocean current) of the Pacific Ocean
4. How many hours are there between each low and high tide?
6. An earthquake underwater causes a large, violent wave.
9. A tide in which the sun’s gravity fights the moon’s gravity, reducing the extremes.
11. The higher the salinity in water the higher the _________; the lower salinity in water the lower the _________. (or _______=mass/volume)
14. What is the main cause of the ocean’s surface waves?
15. In a thermohaline current, water is flowing away from the North Pole and towards the equator. Is this current in deep water or shallow water?
17. True or False. All ice sheets are glaciers, but not all glaciers are ice sheets.