unit 5 bingo vocab

4. Surface wind-driven currents
11. sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration.
14. joining of two differing substances
18. continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere
19. constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity.
20. warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
21. area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet
22. measure of the void spaces in a material
23. measure of dissolved salts in water
24. state of cohering or sticking together of alike entities

1. As the warm air over the land is rising, the cooler air over the ocean is flowing over the land surface to replace the rising warm air
2. ability of any material such as rocks to pass fluids or gases through its pores
3. water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail
5. winds blow constantly from the same direction on the ocean's surface for long durations
6. rate at which something changes over a distance or time
7. process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water
8. easonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region
9. water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface
10. ocal wind system characterized by a flow from land to water late at night
12. massive structures made of limestone deposited by coral polyps
13. underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks in rock
15. process of removing salts or other minerals and contaminants from seawater, brackish water, and wastewater effluent
16. periodic cooling of sea-surface temperatures across the east-central equatorial Pacific
17. Gravity and pressure move water downward and sideways underground through spaces between rocks
23. precipitation that runs off the landscape